Dro, good buddy, it’s nice to see you back. This forum has been way to slow of late. It’s not so dead lately.

I have this friend in the program that calls me a Cinderella Sponsor. Not too hard, not too soft, but just right. I don’t think he means it as a compliment. We get along fine, but we don’t agree on sponsorship.

I have this other friend, as big a Big Book thumper as I ever met. If it isn’t in the Big Book, it doesn’t belong in a meeting. He would have the spiritual path be a narrow and unyielding thing. We don’t agree, but we are still friends.

My wife thinks I did this thing (getting and staying sober) by applying my self will. She thinks I just said “I quit” and that was it. I picked up one white chip, and I haven’t found it necessary to pick up another.

I tried to tell her that a power greater than myself relieved me of that damn obsession. You know the one, the one that always gets you drunk even when you said you weren’t going to drink that day.

She just smiled, patted my hand and said “Yes dear” She doe4sn’t believe in this power greater than ourselves, she doesn’t need to, she doesn’t drink.

But I do. My very life depends on it. But then again, that’s just me.

My grand sponsor told me that the rooms of AA are for those that want it. I think he was half right, it is for those that do it. He also told me something that is 100% true… he said that a football stadium wouldn’t hold all the people that need it.

It’s a big problem, and there is room for lots of solutions. But for any of you out there reading this forum, and trying to quit, look for the ones in whom the problem has been solved, and do what they are doing. Your chances go way up if you do.

And like one of those stupid little signs in the rooms say, “Easy does it.”

On the road to the good stuff,
Richard