I used to think Minnesota was the promised land or something.

[raccoon]

(Not because of Garrison Keillor, either. This was long before I ever heard of him.)

In the mid 1980's I discovered Adult Children of Alcoholics meetings. For the first time, people who understood how I felt, who didn't tell me I shouldn't talk about things like that, I was full of it, etc.

Minnesota in those days seemed to be in the vanguard of addictions treatment and related stuff such as codependency and adult children's issues.

My question is, I guess, when did you start seeing Adult Children meetings in Minnesota?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. Early 1980s, about the time I moved back here for the first time

:shrug:

By that time, though, the people I met on my temping jobs already talked about "chemical dependency" in a way that people didn't on the East Coast.