💙 There is a Solution, Pages 18-20 (Arline)

In episode #115, Arline continues the Big Book Awakening series by reading Chapter 2, There is a Solution, from pages 18 to 20. "Highly competent psychiatrists who have dealt with us have found it sometimes impossible to persuade an alcoholic to discuss his situation without reserve. Strangely enough, wives, parents and intimate friends usually find us even more unapproachable than do the psychiatrist and the doctor. But the ex-problem drinker who has found this solution, who is properly armed with facts about himself, can generally win the entire confidence of another alcoholic in a few hours. Until such an understanding is reached, little or nothing can be accomplished." –Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition (p. 18)