Originally Posted by Stung

A month later and I still need a new sponsor.

My sponsor is projecting her issues all over me. I spoke with her again last week and basically she kept telling me I was going through grief. I keep having resentments come up these last two weeks but I think it's related to some of the content of my last therapy session, nothing really to do with grief. I kept trying to pull the conversation to the topic of "letting things go" and meanwhile she kept trying to push the idea that I was thinking of resentments because I was trying to be "right" or because I was going through grief over the state of my marriage. She's going through a power struggle with her sibling and her alcoholic boyfriend passed away from cancer a few months ago, she's in grieving. I want to acknowledge my resentments, not stew on them. No experience, strength or hope on the manner.

I don't know why I bother talking to her, she doesn't hear me or see me as I am. I'm just a screen that she's projecting her own stuff on to. This is the "type" of person that I attract somehow. I use to think I was a very strong person and very sure of who I am but I'm beginning to think that I'm very meek because I cannot find the strength to end things with toxic people like this. Aside from just cowardly hiding from them, which happens to be very effective although totally unhealthy.