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c0n0r0 · 10-19-2007, 09:57 PM

Thanks for the replies. It seems this one year thing I hear at places on the East Coast isn't as widespread as I thought. I've been to a lot of meetings though over the past 14 years where towards the end of the meeting they will ask anyone who has worked the steps and has been sober for a year or more to raise their hands. Then they say these are potential sponsors. I've never seen it in any literature including the sponsorship Q&A. I agree with earlier posters that if you have worked the steps then by all means pass it on. I think it hits a nerve with me when I hear that at meetings because I would have never made it through early sobriety without working with another alcoholic. Before I worked the steps and started sponsoring guys - I helped where I could. My sponsor told me if you have 30 days then go help the guy with 15, tell him how you did it.

So apparently from the replies though no one else is hearing this which is wonderful. It still disheartens me that I hear it at some meetings I go to. If I had waited a year I would probably still be in prison now or dead.

10-19-2007, 09:57 PM	#6 (permalink)
c0n0r0 Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 15	Thanks for the replies. It seems this one year thing I hear at places on the East Coast isn't as widespread as I thought. I've been to a lot of meetings though over the past 14 years where towards the end of the meeting they will ask anyone who has worked the steps and has been sober for a year or more to raise their hands. Then they say these are potential sponsors. I've never seen it in any literature including the sponsorship Q&A. I agree with earlier posters that if you have worked the steps then by all means pass it on. I think it hits a nerve with me when I hear that at meetings because I would have never made it through early sobriety without working with another alcoholic. Before I worked the steps and started sponsoring guys - I helped where I could. My sponsor told me if you have 30 days then go help the guy with 15, tell him how you did it. So apparently from the replies though no one else is hearing this which is wonderful. It still disheartens me that I hear it at some meetings I go to. If I had waited a year I would probably still be in prison now or dead.