AA doesn't like the idea that some can stop w/o AA and some can. I'm not a dry-drunk, I'm a nondrinker. Seven years since my last sip is all the proof I need.
Just so you know, it's not the "official" opinion that people cannot stop without AA. If anyone says that, it really is their personal opinion.
My philosophy is that you should do whatever works. And for me, I am very comfortable with the 12 steps and the 3 legacies.
You are absolutely 100% wrong. Some folks in AA may have that attitude but the program found in the book says otherwise. Since that has been the successful model, I follow that ——and it says we do not have a corner on the market
AA itself doesn’t really have a voice, but it does have a book. The book says, if you can quit on your own, more power to you. Maybe you weren’t as far gone as some of us were - so far gone that nothing short of a spiritual experience would turn the trick.
As far as the dry drunk, I say that’s an “if the shoe fits wear it” sort of thing. Everyone should be doing SOMETHING to stay in fit spiritual condition.