Al-Anon Q: How do you know when it's time to walk away?

I could not make good decisions until I had completed the first nine steps and was spending plenty of time sponsoring and in prayer and meditation.

Then, what to do was obvious. If I'm asking others, it means I don't know, and, when I don't know, the conditions for knowing have not been established.

I would recommend a full run through the Twelve Steps:

Admission of powerlessness

Surrender to God

Full moral inventory

Confession

Amends

Prayer

Meditation

Service