Before I found my unique sobriety combination, I had been told that ‘AA is the only way’. So, I went to thrice-a-week AA meetings for six months. But, given the choice of a lifetime inside AA, or drinking, I kept choosing drinking. That wasn’t AA’s fault, it was just my reaction to it. I needed a third door. It was only once I stopped going to AA and started designing my own sobriety, that my sobriety started sticking. AA helped me get to sober, for sure, but staying in AA was not the right decision for me. I went to more than 75 meetings before deciding that.
