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Addiction & Recovery

JDC

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1. I get what you are saying, but "getting the hell out" is hope for many

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Fri Dec 14, 2018, 07:43 PM

Dec 2018

They feel stuck or afraid to go. Hence hopeless.

This is meant, I believe, to empower those in Al Anon. Give them the courage to do what your mom did. Not everyone has that.

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Al Anon suggested opening says, " In Al-Anon we discover that no situation is really hopeless." [View all] raccoon Dec 2018 OP

I get what you are saying, but "getting the hell out" is hope for many JDC Dec 2018 #1

I can empathize with having an alcoholic parent. Adsos Letter Dec 2018 #2

Absolutely. Shit like that is in the same Voltaire2 Dec 2018 #3

You are still with us :) violetpastille Dec 2018 #4

Hopeless life. stevil Feb 2019 #6

Thank you all for your kind responses. Nt raccoon Dec 2018 #5