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People my own age
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I have a problem. I just started going to meetings 2 1/2 months ago and started out from the bat talking to the older women and my sponser wants me to start talking to people my age (22). I am afraid of cliques and I know alot of people my age are like that. How do I go about making friends that are my age?
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Am I really an alcoholic?
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Yup. I'm back here again. Starting my first step and having doubts. Maybe I just made a big deal out of things. I don't know. Yes. I do know. I know I am an alcoholic but I have been lucky enough to catch it early. Like, someone in the early stages of cancer still has cancer. I hate when my head does this. I imag...
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AA for bulbs
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Communications
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Wife is at home and texts husband on a cold winter morning:"Windows frozen." Husband texts back: "Pour some lukewarm water over it." Wife texts back 5 minutes later: "Computer completely screwed up now."
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Reason, Season, And A Lifetime
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Reason, Season, And A LifetimePeople come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you will know exactly what to do.Some people come into our lives and quickly go..Some people become friends and stay awhile...leaving beautiful footprints on our hearts.....
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Step 4 suggestions &/ or guidance
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Hey all:) I am currently working on my 4th step ( for 2nd time, cuz my first attempt was not very honest). I think that I am done with the resentment list- I feel as though I have been very honest and thorough. My sponser does not agree. I'm really just looking for advice from those that have completed their...
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Alcoholics
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"Today, my daughter finally gave birth to twin boys. She informed me that she named them Peregrin Took and Meriadoc Brandybuck. My grandsons are named after Hobbits. FML"
Lol alcoholism gets the best of us
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'Smashed' not a watered-down look at alcoholism
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Interesting sounding film.I passed out at an airport once. Near the end of the runway. Planes taking off shook the car and woke me up. Don't know how many.Ah, the life. 'Smashed' not a watered-down look at alcoholismPosted December 7, 2012 . . . The film is about alcoholism, and not the clubbing kind...
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Anger
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Tips for working through the anger? Last night I was lying in bed and I just felt absolutely consumed by anger. I was reading the big book and thinking how hard it is going to be to get through step one and I just felt totally rage-y.
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Daily ramblings of an Alcoholic
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The last few days have been o.k. Not good just o.k. I went to 3 meetings in 3 days and a district meeting on the 4th. day. I also phoned my Sponsor and took calls from Sponsee's. I didn't feel like I was one with my HP(God). I felt like I was off the Spiritual beam. I prayed about it. It came to me this mor...
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Mike B.
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Most years I get my dad beer for xmas.
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I'm trying to figure out what to get my alcoholic father for Christmas today. Thinking back to all the Christmas's - most of my gifts were relating to beer. Beer mugs, hat', beer making kits, supplies, fancy beer, weird beer, mini kegs of beer, pain ol' cases of beer... pretty much anything and ever...
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justadrunk
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No Coincidences in my military mind!
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Hey Pappy,blessings of this day! Today's reading ,for me,ever so pertinent(as usual). Last night about 2:00 a.m. I received my 4th "thanks but no thanks" reply from LOWE'S job application department. I am truly blessed to be receiving Social Security but as our plans have been altered...
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Daily Reflections ~ Partners in Recovery & 24hrs a Day
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. . . nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. . . . Both you and the new man must walk day by day in the path of spiritual progress. . . . Follow the dictates of a Higher Power and you will presently live in a new and wonderful world, no matter what your prese...
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Today's Gift 12 - 17
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Fulfillment "Everything I need shall be provided today. Everything." Say it, until you believe it. Say it at the beginning of the day. Say it throughout the day. Sometimes, it helps to know what we want and need. But if we dont, we can trust that God does. When we ask, trust, and believe that o...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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December 17, 2012 Quote of the Week "Learning to live life one day at a time..." My girlfriend went into her office a couple hours late today because of an early doctor's appointment and found that 14 people in her department had been laid off that morning. I'm home recovering from...
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Making amends
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I have made some more amends, this time through email, and a forward to several family members at that!! I didn't think I would be doing "group" or bulk amends when I first began this!!! LOL I had imagined that all my amends would be so huge - such big moments - I pictured the beautiful water...
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Is it ok to drink non-alcoholic beer occasionally?
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So I have been sober for 4 months and was wondering if it was okay to have non-alcoholic beer? Not like downing a six pack or anything like that, just having one when you go out to dinner or something. Thoughts?
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rough day
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I am from newtown, CT. I lived across the street from the elemantary school. I walk there daily. My neice and nephew attend there all my friends kids attend there, I have since moved to the next ton over. My family is home safe, I do not want to hear the names of the lost ones as I am sure to know them or there fa...
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Today's Gift 12 - 16
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Do what you will with another person; But never put them out of your heart. --The Dalai Lama One of the most moving examples of the opening of a hardened heart is the story of Scrooge in Dickens' A Christmas Carol. At an early age, Scrooge concluded that the world was a hard and cruel place. Making the acc...
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Step 11 work
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Today I went to Quaker meditation service with my sponsor. It is/was basically a silent 1 hour meditation/reflection time. I have not done enough work on step 11. I pray, but I have not learned meditation or even given it its proper due. My sponsor is heavily suggesting me learning how to meditat...
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Resentment city
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I am turning into a big angry resentful mess today. I just want to scream. K. Now I want to cry. My mom is sick. Really sick. It's happening again like before. People bail. There are lots of ppl who just suck. Hey. I warned you I was being resentful. They just can't deal or they don't care. I don't know. I feel...
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Leaving regret city
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I was mayor of this city at one time Main : Guilt Leaving the City of Regret by: Larry Harp, Heartwarmers4u I had not really planned on taking a trip this time of year, and yet I found myself packing rather hurriedly. This trip was going to be unpleasant and I knew in advance that no real good would com...
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It's in the giving- that we receive
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December 10 "Happiness is a by-product - the extra dividend of giving without any demand for a return." Prior to AA and my Spiritual Awakening as the result of complete the 12 Steps of AA, I always looked for what was in i...
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Welcome Housemouse
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Welcome to MIP Housemouse, ... Glad to have you here ... looking forward to your shares! Love ya and God Bless, Pappy
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Today's Gift 12 - 11
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Friendship and Love Friendships or marriages based on "dire need" or physical security are doomed to fail if each person in the relationship does not grow beyond his or her limited ways of thinking and reacting. The ideal relationship is one in which each partner strives to grow. It is an e...
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GrapeVine
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December 11 "When you've been lost, lonely, forgotten, rejected, it's the most important thing in the world to have somebody shake your hand." Santa Fe, N.M., May 1972 From: "How AA Works"...
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P*ssing and Moaning --- (joke)(but apparently true)
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Ellisville, Mississippi, April 12, 2011 An Ellisville school teacher called the local phone company to report her telephone failed to ring when her friends called - and that on the few occasions, when it did ring, her dog always moaned right before the phone rang. The telephone repairman proce...
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Thank you all and thank MIP!!!
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My wife is an alcoholic. I have been mean, critical, judging and controling through our life dealing with her addiction. We are just now getting OUR communication skills back. What you all share keeps me grounded in that while she really can't share with me what she is dealing with every single day, I g...
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4 months!
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Hi Mich here.... I was just telling Tasha how busy I am once school starts. I just finished a huge chunk of work and have a bit of a break coming up. I have been MIA on MIP. Ha... but I had 4 months Nov 30th. I feel good. Each day has its challenges, but now I know I can make it thru without a drink. I am so very...
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A day off
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Today is my day off of work. For now, I only have 1 day off a week. I woke at 415am, which is my usual time to wake for work, then decided to sleep in til 6... Got up , made coffee, realized I was pretty exhausted, went back to bed setting my alarm for 8.. What a treat:) I wake up, look at the clock and it's NOON!!! M...
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The 'W' in Christmas
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There aren't many emails that have much of an effect on me any more, but I came across this one that I thought i'd share .... Please accept this in the nature it was intended ... Thank You, Pappy The "W" in Christmas Each December, I vowed to make Christmas a calm and peaceful experience. I h...
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My story...
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Hi, my name is Robin and I am an alcoholic...and this is my story. I was born with a thinking and feeling problem. I had my first resentment sitting in a high-chair as a baby, and I carried that grudge and every resentment after that for many years. I couldn't form a binding relationship with anyone....
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12.12.12
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A heavenly sign reminding you to work the 12 steps now!
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Christmas in a Bottle
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Please Check out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz7JPVnZaKE God Bless and Save Us All.........
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Just checking in
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Lots of learning going on through the crisis of my mom being in the hospital. I'm stronger than I think I am. I have friends in the fellowship who are here for me-I'm not alone. G-d is always here, I just need to slow down to notice him. I have major control issues and I have huge resentments towards other pp...
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the what if'ss
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I know we try to manage the past with 'it is what it is type attitude and I know and understand we have to accept it. However I have been stuck on whaty ift's and questionin alot of my life choices, most I an get over and move on. The one I have the hardest time excepting is my parents early passing, why did they...
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"The idea" BB pg 30
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"The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker."That's why we relapse, not because it is Christmas or New Year. AA took away that idea from me, by working the 12 steps. Now I don't drink because I don't have that idea an...
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Bank Account
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This is AWESOME ... something we should all remember. A 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with his hair fashionably combed and shaved perfectly, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nu...
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Uhhh... This is gonna be a problem
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Ok, so I'm working the 4 th step.. Finished with the resentment part, moving on to the accepting responsibility part. This is fine, I can clearly see where I've been at fault. With the exception of 2 people- my parents. I grew up in an extremely abusive home (abusive on every level). My father was a sick b...
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Gratitude!!!
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Hello all, haven't posted on hetre in a while, just an update. 4 months without a drink, and I feel great! Have been back to work for a while and am on night shift for the next few days, then vacation through Christmas. Haven't been to a meeting since Sunday night, but have been in contact with my sponser. W...
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Today's Gift 12 - 14
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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. --Samuel T. Coleridge Once we thought we knew everything and no one could teach us very much. Now we know others have help and experience and wisdom to offer us, if only we're willing to listen. Learn...
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God Calling - Storms
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"There is no miracle so wonderful as the miracle of a soul being kept by My power. Forces of evil batter and storm, but are powerless. Tempests rage unavailingly. It is like a cool garden with sweet flowers and bees and butterflies and trees and playing fountains set in the midst of a mighty roar...
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Been a while :)
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Too long ! I just wanted to pop in and say hi. It's good to see some of my friends are still hangin' around! Brian
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Identity
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We were talking about fear in a meeting yesterday, and I started thinking about identity. The first time I ever got drunk when I was fourteen I couldn't believe how much I loved it. All of a sudden I wasn't nervous or quiet, I felt like I was the person I really was, the person I was supposed to be. I graduall...
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Today's Gift 12 - 15
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It is a cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present. --J. A. Spender Living in this moment is all we really have. We are constantly bombarded with advice to live for the future, but it perpetually exists beyond our grasp like the carrot tempting the donkey. We are told to...
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Please Welcome a New Member Jack D
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I'm not sure if Jack knew how to create a new thread, so I took the liberty doing so. Welcome to the board Jack. It's nice to have someone with 40+ years here to share their experience, strength, and hope.  Jack D's Story: (from his profile) assume this is my AA biography... lousy story. I grew u...
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feeling a little snowed
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The delicately planned sins of today are a bit different than they were a year ago. Today I trudge to the back pen to tend to my buried-alive-in-snow hobby farm animals. Some of them are less than a year old, and haven't experienced 14 inches of snow suddenly, yet gently turn their world white. I soak...
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Types of meetings
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I'm still trying to figure out all of these different types of meetings. What is a 12 & 12 step meeting? A study group? How does step discussion differ from a regular meeting?
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Daily Reflections ~ A Genuine Humility & 24hrs a Day
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. . . we are actually to practice a genuine humility. This is to the end that our great blessings may never spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful contemplation of Him who presides over us all. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 192 Experience has taught me that my alcoholic personality...
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Today's Gift 12 - 12
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When all else fails, read the instructions. --Agnes Alien The instructions for recovery are in our Twelve Step program. Yet, there are times when we feel our program isn't working. At these times, we need to read the instructions. Have you followed the "instructions," the wise words fou...
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