Workshop: Communication in Sober Relationships AA & Al-Anon

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🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Paul & Max O are a married couple, he in AA and she in Al-Anon they conduct this workshop called Communication in Sober Relationships. There is a Q&A toward the end and there were some blank spots where the questions cant be heard, I removed the dead air but you can generally figure out the question from the answer. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate We have added a page of meetings that have moved online https://sobercast.com/online-meetings Sober Cast has 1400+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. #sobercast @sober_cast

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops and podcast
0:11.8	format.
0:12.8	We're an ad free podcast and if you enjoy listening please help us be self-supporting by visiting
0:17.0	SilverCast.com, look for the donate link and drop a dollar to into our virtual basket.
0:22.3	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:27.6	And then Dr. Paul will get up and he will speak for a little while.
0:31.6	And then we'd like to turn it over to a question and answer period.
0:35.5	We would appreciate it if you'd use the Bloormike which has been provided for us by James.
0:43.0	That way we can get everything on tape.
0:46.3	So if y'all will please help me welcome Max from California.
0:57.2	Thank you.
0:58.2	And my name is Max and I'm a happy member down on.
1:03.2	I want to tell you I'm no expert at this thing and I don't do it all the time.
1:09.2	But there have been a few things that we've learned on the program that work at least for us.
1:16.2	In the beginning I used to try to get Paul to talk and it was always a fiasco.
1:22.2	He didn't want to talk and he didn't like to hear what I had to say.
1:26.2	And before we came to the program I had given up.
1:29.2	So when he started going to AA and I was going with him we would ride from Anaheim down to Laguna Beach
1:38.2	which took about 35, 40 minutes.
1:41.2	And for the first time in my life I was able to be in the car with Paul and not talk.
1:46.2	Because before I used to ask him questions which made him mad.
1:51.2	And I never could understand why.
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