Drama: Rumor, lying or exaggerated reaction to life events: melodrama; a situation made more complicated or worse than it should be; intrigue or spiteful interpersonal maneuvering.
This will be my last Keep It Complicated post. Maybe. For a while. Until I feel like flogging the dead horse a little longer. Little bit. Little bit.
I have brought this topic up with my Go To guys for a long time. My Go To guys are mostly patient with me - they ask a lot of good, probing questions, aware that I've been flogging for so long that I've got a pretty good idea why I'm upset and they're not going to be able to shed any light on a subject that I've inspected under flood lights. Namely: that I'm an idiot. At the end, to a man, a variation of this comment arises: "Maybe it's time to let that meeting go."
Uh, you think so? Jesus, Mother, and Mary. SuperK and I were reminiscing about whether in our 70 years of combined meeting attendance - encompassing dozens of different meetings of all colors and stripes in five different states - we had ever been involved with a group that got so contentious that some of the members broke away and started what is obviously a competitive meeting. I get the old "resentment and a coffee pot" saw about how A.A. spreads - I know it happens but neither of us has ever been involved with a group that fractured . . . and here I am in a group where it has happened twice in five years.
Maybe it's time to let that meeting go. Maybe it was time to let that meeting go after the first time.
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