Originally Posted by
paulokes 
Miami really important point....and a 'people' issue in AA rather than a program one.
The 12 Step Programme of AA absolutely does not promote sponsors controlling the practical elements of their sponsees lives, or sponsees asking their sponsors to do so, or accepting that.
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I was looking over this thread again and this jumped out at me.
It was precisely this which made me leave the program. It happened in every one of the few dozen groups I was part of in few different cities.
I always said that if real-life AA was more like the literature, and if all the restrictions on discourse in the meeting were followed before and after the meeting, it would be a better program.