Summary: Have you wondered why someone would choose Al-Anon? Or why those “long timers” keep on coming?<br> <br> Spencer and Amy tell their stories of coming to Al-Anon, and the reasons they're still coming years later. We used this outline to guide our conversation.<br> <br> What brought you to Al-Anon originally?<br> What was your situation?<br> Was there active alcoholism in your life at the time?<br> What was your relationship to the alcoholic(s) in your life?<br> How did you “hit bottom”?<br> What was your first meeting like?<br> What did you expect?<br> How were your expectations met?<br> How were they not met?<br> Did you keep coming back after your first meeting?<br> Why or why not?<br> How and when did you start to understand what the program was about?<br> What did it mean to you?<br> Did you find help for the situation that brought you to Al-Anon?<br> Was it the kind of help you had expected?<br> How long have you been in Al-Anon?<br> Is the original situation the same?<br> How or how not?<br> What keeps you coming to Al-Anon?<br> Do you still have active alcoholism in your life?<br> Did you “discover” more alcoholism around you?<br> Are you still dealing with the same issues as when you came in?<br> Do you attend Al-Anon primarily to help you deal with the alcoholism in your life, past or present?<br> Do you attend because of the growth and change in yourself you have found here?<br> Do you attend because if you don’t, you get crazy again?<br> Do you attend to pass the help on to others who are still suffering?
