welcome Joel, Glad your here

welcome, hope you find this support group useful.

in my experience 1 meeting for me a week, the reason for that coz i never heard the message, can you try and get to more meetings??

this is not a recovery group , its a support group, please dont do what i did n used this as recovery coz it isnt.

i wish u all the best,

good luck :)

Welcome Joel! :) Stick around and lean on us! Keep on......

Thanks all . Mel, I just intend to see what the group is all about and my meeting will continue to be my main recovery tool
On the other hand recovery is a pretty good way to support an alcoholic.

good for you. :)

Hello Joel.I am with you I've been sober 3 days and am finding it almost impossible to get to a meeting. I have no one to sit with my child (terrible 2). I have found online AA and am going to check that out and the Big Book is helping me big time!!!The big book states modem to modem or face to face so I figure instead of doing nothing I'll work with what I have. Good luck to you and hang in there.

Thank you row. Boy I hope you can get to some face to face meetings. I know what you mean though, my grandchildren are much quicker than my kids were! I reject the possiblility that it's actually that I'm slower! LOL
Anyway, I like the fact that you are doing what you can to work on your recovery instead of saying I can't.
Just to clear any confusion, when I said "a few 24 hours", that's AA speak for quite awhile. Yet all any of us really have in the sobriety bank is today!
Joel

True, one day at a time. That's great that you have some time under your belt though.I'm hoping to get to a face to face soon. Unfortunately when the bf is home he does not yet trust me to take the car myself so it's sort of a conundrum.For the first time I am actually willing to go the AA route, I had been there before half heartedly but now know I cannot do it without the help of other alcoholics.

Howdy DT and welcome! :)

Hello joel and welcome

Hi Joel and welcome to this forum! I encourage you to make attending AA meetings a priority. Are there AA meetings during the day (lunchtime?) you can attend? The last meeting I attended was last Wed. and I have 'slipped' since then.

Do you mind me asking how much you drank daily? Medically supervised detox may be a life saver, literaly, for you, it will be for me when I creep up the waitlist.

Do you you have the AA (blue) "Big Book"? I received mine a few days ago and it's a powerful read for transition from drinking to recovery.

Hang in there, desertgal1

Hi Joel. Welcome. I'm Karen, and I'm an alcoholic. Hope you like it here.

Welcome aBoard...get it. a board. This is a board. hehe. ok, now you know I'm one of the goof balls here. (o;

Clearing this up again for Joel....He has a lot of sober time! He could teach us some stuff I'm sure! (o;

WTG Joel! Happy to have you here. (o;

lol! I think Joel might need to attend a meeting & have some mental detoxing after reading some of these replies... :)

Welcome again Joel...sorry I called you DT before, I didn't realize that you stated your name in the subject line.

Hi Joel, and ditto on the welcomes. Looking forward to hearing of your experiences. CM xxx