Hi everyone! Glad to see you are still kicking Cow.
Courage when you said your sponsor dumped you that is not really what happened. Your friend decided she couldn't sponsor you. She told you upfront that if she felt like sponsoring you was interfering with the friendship she would stop. That is what she did. I don't have a sponsor but I can imagine that in could be an imbalance of power. Friends are supposed to equal.
Also you can dispense with trying to figure out everyone's game. Most people don't have one.