My mom is leaving for a Adult Children of Alcoholics retreat at Starved Rock for the weekend today.

She says those Alanon women can be controlling bitches. "You must do this" and "You must do that." She said if she gets any lectures she is walking out of the meeting rather than sit there angry.

You see, she has been walking the path of sobriety for decades now, so she is well past the initial stages of denial, selfishness, self-pity, powerlessness and stubborness that many alcholics cling to.