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Old 07-07-2013, 03:30 PM
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grammydeb
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Originally Posted by pixy View Post
Looking from some advice.
I was 5 years sober, and got a sponsor about 4 years into recovery. We had almost made it through the steps when I picked up a drink earlier this year.

I rang her, and we discussed the slip, and I rang a few more times, but then stopped. I stopped AA, and got on with the business of drinking. I then booked into see an addiction specialist, and have recently started attending AA again, maybe 1 meeting every couple of weeks, but I have yet to go back to my home group.

Probably inappropriately I was upset that my sponsor did not try to contact me at all, and in the bigger picture only 1 person from my home group actually texted me to see if I was okay. Sure it was pride and all the rest, but I felt hurt that I just disappeared off the scene, and it was like I had never even been there.

Rambling, now, my question, is my sponsor still my sponsor, how would you take things forward. My addiction specialist is suggesting a new sponsor.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.


a sponsor is just another tool of the program
and there are some great folks that do this every well and there are some folks who do not
that is just a fact
I relapsed after 13 years
I spent the last two years out of AA altogether
no one in AA is responsible for my recovery but me
God is not even responsible
I had to get honest about why I decided to drink again
that was simple
I quit doing anything at all to keep me sober
I thought I was too smart to drink! Talk about insanity returning
why should your sponsor call to check on you? I do not call folks that go back out I pray for them then leave them to face there own decision
why should I enable some one
I refuse to p;ay little alcoholic mind games nor to be manipulated
you are the one who drank you are the one who needs to do the phone calls
be fore I drank again I was the "queen of the yea, butts"
I fired sponsors that dared to tell me the cold hard facts
quit playing games and get to your home group get a sponsor that is going to
share their experience, strength, and hope get into the big book and start over
today I have been sober again almost 15 years
my relapse saved my life!!
I know that if I do not do what is laid out in the big book I will drink again
I am NOT cured
hope you make it
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