Originally Posted by
AlcKelty 
Ok I feel vulnerable is this normal ? Am I being tested for something. All help greatly appreciated
brought back memories. My second sponsor and I kinda got off to a rocky start. He "requires" daily phone calls. My time is at 7:15. He was insistent so I knew better than to blow it off or be late.
Day 1......no answer. I just left a, "hi, it's me" message but didn't ask him to call me back. Day 2 was the same thing. At first I thought he was testing me / God was testing me.
Day 3 he answered, we talked for 3 minutes and that was it. On and off sporadically for another week or two. Finally, I asked him if I was doing something wrong. He laughed and said, "look, you're fine. You're calling, that's what I asked for. IF you need to talk, be a big-boy and leave me a message that you want/need to talk if I don't answer."
Turned out, he had VERY legit reasons to miss those calls....and he was dead-on about telling me to sort-of stand up for myself if I needed to talk. I needed to hear that.