On the new WSO website, al-anon.org, you can find Al‑Anon and Alateen meetings throughout the world, online and on the phone on the “Al‑Anon Meetings” menu.
“Find an Al‑Anon Meeting” and “Find an Alateen Meeting”
- Locate physical Al‑Anon and Alateen meetings within a 100-mile area of your location. The meeting locator provides directions and a view of the actual location!
“Virtual Meetings” are held online and on the phone.
- The Electronic Meeting List includes blog, bulletin board, email and web conferencing Al‑Anon meetings in English.
- The International Virtual Meeting List lists online meetings in languages other than English, French and Spanish. (French and Spanish “virtual” meetings are listed on the French and Spanish websites.)
- Over 100 phone meetings, held in a conference call format in real time, are listed in U.S. Eastern Time.
“Worldwide Al‑Anon Contacts”
- Lists Al‑Anon Information Services and General Service Offices throughout the world.
I need a meeting my son had an relapse and my heart is heavy and I need someone to talk too. My family doesn’t understand addicts, so I can’t go to them
I understand each and everyone of you in a very special way. I’ve been affected by a father who drinks since I was a child and a mom who has enabled. Both have been this way because they knew no other way to live. I have attended Al-Anon many years because I married an addict who became very verbally abusive and with the help of another 12 step program, therapy and Al-Anon I was able to leave after an almost 12 year marriage. I never thought that I could leave this father of our daughter and co dependent relationship. Fast… Read more »
I need to find a meeting near me asap. I have an alcoholic husband…for the last 21 years. Lies, doesn’t answer phone, then does not remember anything next day. Thinks he can buy the kids out of his poor behavior. Deposits $1000 in their accounts the next morning… tells me to book a trip to Florida to see sister. All because of his guilt. The kids no longer want to be around him…and to top it off i have a 10 year old son with autism. He thinks the “drunk” dad is the fun dad. My son cannot tell the… Read more »
I live with an alcoholic that has been sober for 3 years. Wonderful guy, but very hard to know in many ways. I feel frustrated and left out a lot of the time.
I am in need of a meeting because my birth father and possibly my birth mother were alcoholics. I am so angry about what that has done to my life
I am looking for a place close to where I live to be able to get me some help
I am in need of a meeting so that I can be free of my 47 year old son, who is an alcoholic. I am 80 and cannot cope any longer with his making me that he must have my money to survive. I am on a fixed income and have an empty fridge.
I realize I need to go back to meetings. I need to keep the focus on me by trying to help. I was really just an enabler. After 3 marriages to addict and alcoholics, I could not change or fix them. Now I am dealing with my 2 adult sons who seem to have the same issues. It is difficult but I must keep going to meetings and not enable or feel I could change them. They have to decide to change and go to AA or program. I thought they had learned by seeing their dad loose everything and… Read more »
Al-Anon Meeting Search
I am looking for al anon online meetings. Can you help?
How do you get someone like myfifty one year old son in trearment? I should add he admits he has an addiction.J
I am looking for an Alanon meeting would like to start online please my husband is an alcoholic long story short he got into car accident broke his neck in 3 places then in process of doing surgery his lungs collapsed was devastating he is now recovering but emotionally I’m going through things too just need a real friend I think! Teresa
My husband only drinks on the weekends but when he does lately, he will finish off a fifth or more every night. It ends with something so little setting him off into an emotional abusive tirade. I believe my cancer journey this last year and the stress that can weigh on a family became too much for him even though I am cancer free. Now we are dealing with this and he is very stubborn and I think deep down he knows there is a problem, but does not want to admit it. I am at such a loss because… Read more »
I am struggling with my alcholic son . It’s so hard I feel I can’t cope sometimes. He has been living with his wife of 11 years but he moved in with me when she had had enough which was about almost two years ago . Since he moved in with me he has spent quite a lot of his time with his wife but every time he had a drink he is back with me . It always everyone else’s fault that he drinks . I very recently lost my mum and my dad who parted when I was… Read more »
I’m feeling so alone my boyfriend has a drinking problem that he can’t control and I feel like I’m losing myself in this relationship cause I’m always stressing about him and we have a son together and I don’t want to have my son grow up in a broken family… don’t know what to do anymore.
I wanted to add that working the 12 Steps, especially Step Four helped me to really ‘know’ me. I would encourage anyone to really work the steps. Understanding who I was gave me the self esteem needed to love and respect others for who they are…. it helped me to realize I was expecting others to fulfill my shortcomings. I grew with the dysfunction of excessive drinking and the chaos that brings as a child, which shaped me into who I was, and I took all of that into a marriage creating further dysfunction with control issues, victim and martyr… Read more »
9+ years ago my husband chose recovery in AA and I also chose Al-Aron recovery. The tools I acquired through this Programme and through the open AA meetings have been amazing for the quality of life I now enjoy. Life still has its challenges but today I can live in serenity in spite of any chaos or challenges I may experience, and when I make unhealthy choices I have a group of Al-Anon members, whose experience, strength and hope, keep me grounded. I try to live each day, one at a time, and give to my Higher Power all that… Read more »
I am traveling with my sober husband across Colorado, New Mexico onto WI. We are both in anonymous programs. I sometimes feel that l need the familiarity of “my people” to converse with and laugh!!! Not that my husband and l don’t have that, but u know it’s different…I’ve been in al-anon on the 16th of Sept. for 35 yrs. and I’m here for a lifetime!! I love al-anon and the members in it, no matter where l go. I am heading to Texas where we will see my daughter and her family. She just started al-anon, her husband drinks… Read more »
I am looking for help because my boyfriend and best friends are addicts. I was an addict but have been sober and have found it easier to stay sober because I wasn’t an addict for as long as they have been. They keep relapsing and I don’t know what to do. I try to talk to my boyfriend about it but he gets belligerent which is not like him. Normally he is extremely loving and doting but when he is high or coming down or when we talk about how he shouldn’t be getting high he becomes a different person.… Read more »
My 18 yr old daughter and my 23 year old son both are addicts/alcoholics. They are my anchors holding me under water drowning me.
My partner is apparently seeking advice and help for her serious alcohol dependency but seems to be getting worse.
I (we) have two young children whose lives are being destroyed by their mothers aggressive addiction and obvious blame on everyone but herself.
I can’t leave her in charge of my children but at the same time cannot continue to live with her.
Backed into a corner and ashamed to ask any of my friends for advice and I don’t want to lose my children ………I’m facing a wall