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Although I've just finished working the 12 Steps with an online group, I haven't been to a real life 12 Step meeting in over a year. I went to meetings weekly in the first year after I learned of my husband's sexual addiction, but I stopped going regularly about four years ago. The meetings stopped being good for me -- or maybe I stopped being good for the meetings -- in any case, I got to a place where my group and I just weren't good for one another. However, I've been starting to think that maybe it was time to go back. Maybe I'm ready now.
One of the things holding me back has been the fact that I never felt entirely comfortable with the approach of my old group. There was another group I attended a few times that I liked better, but there were no local meetings. A few days ago, I shared this with my online group and my husband. I wondered if I should go back to the old group or try to start a local meeting for the other group, although the idea of starting a meeting seemed overwhelming.
On New Year's, my husband said he was thinking about skipping his own meeting. It's something he only does on holidays, and on this particular holiday, I hadn't been feeling well, so he was leaning toward staying home to let me get some extra rest while he put the kids to bed. But when his meeting time came, I was feeling better and told him to go. When he came back, he said excitedly, "I have something for you!" and pulled out a flier. It turns out that his meeting is moving to a new (larger) room, and a new group is moving into their old room this week. The new group? The very meeting I was just bemoaning the lack of.
Well, ok then. I guess I'll be going back to 12 Step meetings this year.
This post was originally published at The Second Road.
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