Al-Anon: Don R then Ellen C

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🗓️ 18 May 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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We have two Al-Anon speakers today, both are sharing at the Northwest Fellowship of the Spirit event held in Warm Beach Washington in 2022. Don R opens it up telling his story for the first half then we have Ellen C closing out the meeting with her Al-Anon story. If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Event List: https://scast.us/event If you have an AA roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out here on the podcast and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2500+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Soebecast, where we provide AA speaker meetings and workshops in
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0:22.0	We hope you enjoy the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:24.7	My wife and I have been married now
0:30.3	as I'm, I guess, Tuesday it's 42 years and for the first three she drank pretty heavily I did two I had a rock and roll band called
0:46.0	whiskey and our motto was boogie till you puke and that's pretty much what we did and but then she got pregnant with her
0:57.2	first son and she quit drinking and she went to an AA meeting just one and she came home and said I'm never going to that again.
1:06.8	They were trying to shove God down my throat and they told me I just have to divorce you.
1:13.2	And anyway, she didn't go to AA,
1:17.4	but she didn't drink for,
1:20.1	I was trying to figure it out, and I about 25 years except a couple times in the middle
1:25.2	she decided we had people over and she decided she could have a beer or a glass of wine.
1:31.0	Both times that happened she ended up at the doctor because she just, in two days and drank it so sick.
1:38.0	And then she didn't drink again until our youngest son went off to college, which was now 16 years ago.
1:47.3	And we went to a wedding and she said, I think I'm going to have a glass of champagne. I said, okay. And it pretty much started there and
1:59.9	she picked right up where she'd left off,
2:03.4	and kind of put the pedal of the metal.
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