well i got sober out in eastern long island back in '94 and thank
god people spoke about what i said at meetings...during the meeting
and afterwards...did i always like what they said...no...but i
listened..because they were sober for a while and i was trying not
to drink...so i needed alot of direction ..not just from a
sponser..my sponser had a year and boy he was on fire wuth this aa
stuff...but i learned from alot old timers in the meetings and
outside the meetings what the real deal was...so i moved back to
albuquerquein the spring of 95 and ....well it was differnt...thats
where i heard about cross talk and this and that...and that u only
talked to your sponser...well im just glad i got sober wherr i did
amd im glad i've stayed sober where i a m...

sam









--- In We_Have_Recovered@yahoogroups.com, "Jim K." <jknyc@h...>
wrote:
> I never heard of this as a term until I moved to NYC from eastern
> Long Island in 1997. I first associated cross talk with talking
> while someone else was sharing in a meeting but have since learned
> it is associated with commenting on someone elses' share.
>
> Heavens forbid if someone might say something to someone who is
> sorely mistaken about something. How do people learn - from the
> experience of others hopefully. AA isn't group therapy where
dumping
> out one's problems is any kind of a real solution. Perhaps a
> suggestion by those who have gone down the pathe before us is in
> order - but don't cross talk...
>
> How do you all feel about it?
>
> Jim - Recovered!