[MajestyJo]

Sponsored and had a friendship with a person who was a Pedophile, who went to meetings, and he was allowed out of controlled living residence for people out of jail but considered not ready to go out into the community, without a reliable person to chaperone.

There is so much out there, many people don't know what is going on. They say that a pedophile is unable to heal and change. He was 7 years sober when he went to the church, put his program on the back burner, and relapsed. Thankfully he made it back into recovery. The last I heard, he was living with a woman who has a teenage daughter.

There are a lot of sexually assaulted members, men and women, who have a lot of issues to deal with. I personally was raped 4 times prior to recovery. The first rapist was my husband. I thought it was my duty and didn't have the right to say "No!" That was why I went for counselling at 15 years sober, my Step 4 was enough to deal with all the memories and feelings. I had to go for outside counselling. For me, it is doing whatever it took, to stay clean and sober. We are only as sick as our secrets.

Sounds like another drug to me, using something outside of myself to make me feel better. Can't cover up, need to get to the root of things.