“At least three of those four years must have been a living hell for my wife, because she had to watch the man she loved disintegrate morally, mentally, and financially. The” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“and I actually talked about God, the one who had abandoned me when I was very little, very frightened, and very hurt.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“New Year’s resolutions I recycled for a dozen years while my drinking and my life kept getting worse. Alcohol had enslaved me. I was… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The horrors grew. Inner horrors. On the surface it looked as though I was more or less keeping it together, but day by day… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How I ran my home, I don’t know. I went on, realizing what I was becoming, hating myself for it, bitter, blaming life, blaming… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Acceptance is the answer to all my problemskey to all my problems today.When I am distrubed, it is because I find some person, place,… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s like a man standing on a bridge in the middle of a river with his pants on fire wondering why his pants are… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But in the light of the new understanding that I have found in A.A., I have been able to interpret that defeat and that… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I actually wanted a drink, besides feeling that I had to have a drink.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When I got home in the evening, I drank at least half the fifth in front of the television set and watched reruns until… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I wondered how this misery would end. I was full of fear. I was afraid to tell others what I felt lest they would… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I tried everything. I moved a thousand miles away from home to Chicago and a new environment. I studied art; I desperately endeavored to… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dishonest thinking, prejudice, ego, antagonism toward anyone and everyone who dares to cross him, vanity, and a critical attitude are character defects that gradually… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We must lose our fear of creditors no matter how far we have to go, for we are liable to drink if we are… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So I continued spinning fantasies, and now alcohol fueled my dreams. I would make great discoveries, win the Nobel Prize in medicine and in… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Above all, I am grateful to A.A. for my sobriety, which means so much to my family, friends, and business associates, because God and… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
