“3. The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking.”
Not a need. Not even willingness—that comes later.
Does one ‘want’ to stop drinking (and want to stay stopped and want sobriety itself and all that that entails)? Or is there still a yearning, a double-mindedness, an equivocation, a distaste, a conflict, an uncertainty, a sluggishness, a reluctance, a resistance, or a rebellion?
Desire is either there or it isn’t.
If it is there, it either has the upper hand, or it does not.
The answers might be ‘yes’, ‘not yet’, or ‘no’.