Winona Ryder plays Lois Wilson (cofounder of Al-Anon), Barry Pepper plays Bill Wilson (cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous), in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story, premiering Sunday, April 25, 2010 on CBS.
AA is a CULT
chihuahuazz 4 months ago
@beautifulmind546 Absolutely perfectly said. You lose people to alcohol and then they dig a hole so deep in AA with this 'spirituality' they have two holes to now get out of. it takes what was once a chaotic mess of drunkeness, (which is easy to pinpoint) and adds a dimension of controlled madness.
adriennehalo 6 months ago
@adriennehalo And I agree with you. Great comments. People need to know this because he was a model for a beahvior that exists with the majority of AA members to this day. never dealing with the core issues and transfering all of the addictions. narcicism and self absorption still ever present now coupled with an air of spiritual superiority from self denial.
beautifulmind546 6 months ago
@inwood75 He never recovered from what ailed him, he just transferred his problems onto other behaviours.
adriennehalo 6 months ago
@beautifulmind546 Agreed. Until they find a better route out of their trauma behaviour AA will just perpetuate it.
adriennehalo 6 months ago
Bill Wilson, aka Bill W. remained an incurable addict to sex, nicotine, caffeine and women until the day he died.
Wilson was married to the same woman for 53 years while keeping a mistress and catting around, reports the New York Post.
He had an "inability to regulate his behaviour with women" and was "often accused of groping and unwelcome fondling,"
However, he was able to cover his bad behaviour with the help of grateful members of Alcoholics Anonymous whose lives he'd helped save.
adriennehalo 6 months ago