Anyone leave AA after being sober a while?
I've been sober 15 years, through job changes and losing family members and getting married and having two kids. I have an amazing life and am quite happy.
I got sober by going to residential treatment and then staying at a sober living house for a year. I was introduced to AA here and it was a requirement that I attend 3 meetings a week and work with a sponsor, which I did for many years even after leaving the sober house.
Fast forward to today. I have two little kids and work full time. My long-time sponsor left AA a year ago. I got a new sponsor who is super chill and makes really no demands of me. For the past 3 or 4 years I've only been going to my home group once a week, no other meetings. I like my home group just fine, the people are nice and I always leave happy that I went. But I have always struggled with "the God thing", and now several of my friends have left AA, and my kids and job are very needy, and Monday night rolls around and I just REALLY don't feel like going to my meeting.
My only perspective of people who have left AA is from the side of the ones that come back to meetings after a while, about half the time after relapsing despite leaving with several years of sobriety. I truly have zero desire to drink. Not even a little bit. The thought of having a drink, let alone getting drunk, sounds absolutely awful to me.
So I'm just wondering... do people stay sober after leaving AA if they've been in it for a while? Can I just kinda... take a break from it if my heart isn't in it right now and may or may not be again in the future?