George M. - Sober 39 Years

As one of our most senior members of the Fellowship, George is now 89 years old and approaching 40 years of sobriety in AA. Like many other guests who got sober later in life, George’s story is a dichotomy between a well-lived life before getting sober and a life in AA. As a heavy drinker, yet highly functional alcoholic, he was able to successfully juggle his career in the financial sector and a marriage with raising four children. As alcoholism grew more ominous in his life, George found himself divorced and married two more times before he quit drinking. The impending, ye...