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Outright Mental Defective
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
  Death of an A.A. Meeting
As much as I do not want to admit it, I think our Thursday women’s Big Book meeting may be dying. Attendance is way down. A couple of us started this meeting just last November and for a while we were getting six to ten women every week. The past couple of months however, we are lucky to get three.

A long time ago, an old timer told me that if I started a meeting I had to commit to it for a year. So, I committed to it for a year but now the year is almost up. Lately I been feeling like I am single handedly propping up a meeting that otherwise would have disbanded. I have to ask myself how much of this is about doing God’s will and how much of it is about my ego. You know the, “damn it I will make this meeting work” syndrome.

I should ask my sponsor about this but I think when we hit a year I am going to quietly back off. I will still attend on a regular basis but I am not going to be the one to always be there. I am sad about it but it should not be “Trudge’s meeting” meeting like it seems to be now.
 
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i have felt this way with our OA group too. i finally verbalized it to the woman i began the group with and said that that group needs to carry the load of this, not me. it's wearing me down. everyone looks to me instead of to each other.

i am at fault with this because i allowed it, but my life is getting too full for it to continue.

just wanted you to know you're not alone!
 
It sounds like a Step One issue--you are powerless over whether it goes forth or not. If it's meant to be, it will continue.
 
You never know with meetings, sometimes they grow and sometimes they don't. By the time November come along it may be going strong.
 
It will be interesting to see what happens after a year. The weirdest things sometimes happen.
 
I've seen dying meetings suddenly explode with people. I've also seen large meetings die down. Part of the ebb and flow, I guess ... hopefully things will pick up!
 
Is this the meeting that you guys hold in the helicopter? If it is, just try going back to a room with chairs.
 
It could still bounce back. Either way you have the tools to deal with Ms. Ego :)

Happy Thursday Trudge

giggling at dAAve's comment
 
My sponsor says God always leads the meeting. Maybe just turn it over and see what happens.
 
What Syd said.

Hope you're well etc.
 
Its always sad to me to see a meeting die. But I see it happen when there aren't members suiting up, showing up, taking commitments. I'm interested to see waht your sponsor says
 
i think if we had it at 5:30, we'd be fine. people don't like "late" meetings during the week.. i will miss it for sure if it has to go though.
 
I am part of a womens group that just started in July that initially had about 15 people at each and now the last couple weeks has had only about 4-6 people. I didn't start the meeting, but I've been at every single one of them. It feels like a physical hurt to see it dwindle, and I'm not even sure why. All the ladies say they love the meeting so much, but then don't make a point of being there regularly. It boggles my mind.

Just my 2 cents. I hope your meeting comes back around.
 
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