I used to ask people up at the treatment center if your child is dying or you’re gonna be picky about who you get the cure from? If you come in to Alcoholics Anonymous dictating the terms of your own on recovery then you’re not desperate enough.

I used to tell people sitting there in the group group looking rather disinterested…. We were sitting here doing a group on your child’s future survival sir survival-what would you be doing right now? Would you be sitting there all nonchalant or would you have a piece of paper and a Pan in hand and a manual reaching for whatever information you could get to save that child? I’ll? Then I would ask him if they thought their lives were as important as their own children’s?

I want sast of a group of 15 or so -how many of you grew up with one alcoholic parent? Several people raised their hands. Then I asked how many of you grew up with 2 attic alcoholic parents? One person raised their hand out of 15..