My First Slaa Meeting

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My First Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous Meeting I have been attending AA meetings since 1993 and I must admit this was quite an intimidating experience for me. I parked my car and sheepishly walked across the street and ducked into the SLAA meeting room praying no one would see me. I got there early and the woman setting up was someone I know from an AA meeting. I sat there extremely uncomfortable because it seemed as though she didn’t recognize me. She did. We have lunch together every week after the Saturday morning AA meeting. She had already told me that this was a closed meeting of ALAA, so in a sense I was already admitting that I have a problem in this area. She handed me a laminated sheet of paper that read “ The 12 Characteristics of Sex and Love Addiction” and asked if I would read it when called upon, I agreed. All types of people filed into the room; gay men, straight men, gay women, straight women. Knowing it is not my God given right to judge people, I couldn’t help but judge every single person that walked in and sat down. In my head, I knew that I didn’t belong in this room, and this made me feel all the more uncomfortable. The meeting started as people went around the room stating their first names and the “nature of their addiction” “Hi, I’m So and So. I’m a sex and love addict”. This made me feel even more uncomfortable. My turn was coming. What I going to say? It’s a closed meeting, which means that I think I already think I have a problem and I certainly didn’t want to be a part of this addiction. So, ‘Hi, My name is Jeanie, and I’m here to listen and see if I may have a problem in this area”. Glad that was over. Then, I heard, “I’ve asked a friend to read the 12 characteristics of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous”. This was my cue. I picked up the paper and said, “My name is Jeanie and I don’t know if I belong

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