Things will get better, Patience. Praying for so to!
Hoping for your car to come through and also, for a cat to come into your life!
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Isolation and addiction go hand in hand. Maybe try getting to a local meeting? Thanks for sharing, Patience.
Thank you so much both would be great.
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As Iāve said I have no way to get to a meeting, there arenāt any close to me anymore since I moved. I know Meeting makes make it and everything else thatās in the basic texts. Thatās why Iām on this platform reaching out. Doing what I can. But thank you for stating the very obvious, I appreciate that. Very helpful. lol
I'm sorry for missing that. Have you tried online meetings via the Zoom app? I make about four meetings a week on Zoom.
Iāve been out of rehab since 2017. I just moved to a place where the program is not so big like it was in Chicago.
I do yes, they help. I get to still see people in my network. There just isnāt anything like in person or the meeting after the meeting.
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I have moved to an island between Manhattan and Queens, called Roosevelt Island. Another recovering addict and myself are seriously looking into starting a brick and mortar meeting here, because there are none on the island.
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Its so crazy to me. In Chicago thereās 5 different areas in the city and each area has at least a meeting every day but usually you have many to choose from at any time of day. That community saved my life. Itās beautiful really. So I thought it was like that everywhere but Iāve been to 2 different cities and itās not. Itās really sad too, there are addicts everywhere.
The cool thing about that app is you can always check out Zoom meetings. You don't have to be anywhere nearby to go to a zoom meeting. You can pick one out anywhere in the country if you want. This app below does a real good job regardless of what platform you're on.
And word to the wise: stay out of relationships until you have some serious sobriety time.
I have been using virtualna.org and aa-intergroup.org since 2020, Iāve made a lot of amazing connections. 2 years ago after Iād been going to a North Carolina zoom meeting for a year I flew out to Asheville for a camping convention, I stayed out there for a month working remotely and I hiked the mountains with my new found friends, I have went around the world virtually through the programs. Zoom is awesome that way.
I have that app and Iāve stayed single since June 23rd 2017, the first day I got clean. I have found my life to be a lot easier single, itās easier to heal and grow.
I can understand that, where I was, wasnāt a healthy place and I needed to get out of there to progress in my recovery.
You sound wise!
1992 Before I even got divorced I hooked up with a woman in Alcoholics Anonymous that I shacked up with for five and a half years. They were the most miserable years of my life. Today I'm happily married
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Keep doing what you're doing and good luck to you
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Hello again. Here's a link to the NA meetings that I have been going to for several months.
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Thank you, it looks like virtual-na.org but itās darkside fellowship is it the same meetings? Iām gonna check it out. Iāve been doing virtual aa lately but na was my fellowship for 4 years.
I can relate 
lol. A rehab buddy of mine and I meet at the gym Saturday mornings and do a modified 12 step meeting along w a workout and itās mostly laughing and shooting the sh&t but I donāt know how many times weāve referenced Hazelden and the good times that were had. Maybe see if any of the women you were in with that are still sober want to hang out doing something healthy?
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Iām in touch with the only one still alive. The woman I shared a room with died down the street from my house a few years ago. She actually died on the sidewalk. So sad. There were 16 of us in a 90 day program, we went to meetings together, did everything together. Thereās only 2 of us left that weāre a part of our group.
Thatās really sad to hear. Well if you live close to her u two should meet up and hang out. Donāt isolate.
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