what's better?

[The Stranger]

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What's up with your sponsor?

Is this typical?

(I'm being genuine here, I really didn't realize they have this much control over who you interact with)

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Well there's a few different schools of thought on sponsorship. The particular group I'm affiliated with right now has a tradition of very strong sponsorship. They feel that one of the keys to working a program is to take direction without questioning it. My sponsor is probably actually considered the most lax in the group.

The other school of thought on sponsorship is that the sponsor tells the sponsee what he did in a similar situation, and how he took the twelve steps, and the sponsee decides for himself.

[RunDownHouse]

Is this lady friend from the same school of thought on sponsorship? My first thought was that she just really didn't understand what you were getting at. It sounds like you and your sponsor - well, actually just your sponsor, because you haven't given much detail about your own, independent thinking - think that she's actively or passively trying to subvert you.

[The Stranger]

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Is this lady friend from the same school of thought on sponsorship?

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no

[The Stranger]

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My first thought was that she just really didn't understand what you were getting at. It sounds like you and your sponsor - well, actually just your sponsor, because you haven't given much detail about your own, independent thinking - think that she's actively or passively trying to subvert you.

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I never asked what his rationale is.

Best I can figure:

I'm obsessing too much.

She's either still too loopy from all that crap she's been putting into her system to be in touch with reality, or she's trying to mess with my head.