About the fellowship
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Recovering Couples Anonymous, or RCA, is a free, anonymous twelve-step fellowship for couples. Partners attend together and work the steps as a couple, rebuilding trust and communication damaged by addiction of any kind, whichever partner carried it.
There are no fees. The only requirement for membership is a desire to remain committed to each other and to develop new intimacy.
RCA is for couples where addiction has left its mark on the relationship: drinking, drugs, gambling, or any other compulsion, active or long arrested. One or both partners may be in another fellowship already, and many couples come while one partner works an individual programme elsewhere. The couple itself is the member, and meetings are attended together.
Meetings feel like other twelve-step rooms, except couples share as couples. There is a chaired format, readings, and sharing from lived experience; nobody is made to speak, and what is said in the room stays there. Most meetings are online, run from different time zones, so UK couples can usually find an evening slot.
RCA does not replace anyone's individual programme, and it is not couples therapy. It is peer support from other couples who have done the repair work themselves. The fellowship dates from 1988 and publishes its own literature for working the steps two at a time.