Approved for all ages

There's a lovely girl in my womens meeting that joined AA when she was 16. She's got 8 years sober.

My sponsor just met a woman who is 84. She has one year sober.

It's never too late or too early to realize you have a problem with drinking, and work on solving it. You can be early in your career before you've lost everything, or you can be someone's grandma, just realizing that she has a problem, or just now willing to do something about it.

The nice part is, there are women in this program (and men) from all over the spectrum of age, race, religion, creed, whatever. Wherever you look, if you look, there's someone you can relate to on those levels, and always you can relate to people's stories. Sharing is the most important part of AA, because it brings people together and gives hope. One can see that there are others just like you, and they have found that happy place the promises suggest. They may still have a rocky time now and again, but just like life, AA isn't perfect.