re - your feelings about meetings, sponsorship, etc - I 've been 
feeling much the same way.  I just fired the two women I sponsor in AA 
as I got tired of giving suggestions that were never taken only to have
the people call me during the next crisis for more advice that they 
never took.  I've decided to take a hiatus from active AA in this area 
and I've had the same experience as you.  You're right.  Back in the 
70's and before that, people in AA cared and would go on a "crusade" as
you put it, to get someone back into meetings.  I am disabled - legally
(not totally) blind and also severe back problems - and I can't even 
get a ride to a meeting more often than not.  I either take a bus to a 
meeting during the day or I don't go.  I am really grateful for these 
boards and I'm thinking of making this my mainstay.  I've just kind of 
given up on my "group".
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My therapist also thinks I get a lot out of these sessions.
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Anyway, I really relate to where you are coming from.  I'm taking an A 
A hiatus anyway to consider how I can best "practise these principles 
in all my affairs" and "carry the message" today.
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What was the last straw was when a woman I sponsor - who I consider my 
friend (or DID) - blows up at me for allegedly breaking 
confidentiality/anonymity saying that I told some guy that I was her 
sponsor and where she was.  (In a psychiatric half-way house) Now this 
guy is someone she herself has described as "not that reliable" in the 
first place, when she first met him - to the point she brought another 
woman with her when she gave him a ride to a meeting.  Secondly, she 
TOLD me he was Orthodox Jewish and looking to contact other Jews in AA.
She SUGGESTED I introduce myself to him and say that she told me to.
(This because my ex was Jewish and I converted to Reform Judaism during
that marriage, so I know SEVERAL Jewish folks in AA who could help him 
deal with some parts of the steps that are phrased in a way some Jewish
people find uncomfortable at first, since it is phrased in terms they 
find distinctly Christian - such as the "Lord's Prayer", right out of 
the New Testament and Jesus Christ's mouth, ending every meeting or the
suggestion to get on your knees, which Observant Jews consider to be 
idolatry, and the SAINT Francis prayer, a Roman Catholic Prayer, in 
step 11, etc.   I am NOT saying these things are wrong, just that some 
folks find it threatening at first - but many can and do adapt it to 
their OWN beliefs and stay sober anyway.   What I believed she wanted 
me to do was to help him meet some recovering alcoholics who were also 
Jewish who might help him.  But my feeling about this guy is that he is
USING this an excuse NOT to practise his program, as he seems quick 
enough to ignore his religious practise when HE finds it convenient.)
Then she claims I told this guy where she was, which I didn't.  In fact
I told another mutual close friend at that time, who KNEW she was 
planning on going to this facility, only that she was out of town on 
personal business and that she was okay, taking care of herself etc. 
but that I didn't feel comfortable giving any specifics.
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But what really galls me is that she wrote me a letter - snail-mail - 
chewing me OUT because I had NOT told this other woman where she was.
This was after both incidents had happened.  At that point in time she 
said that she was not ashamed of where she was and that I should feel 
free to tell ANYONE who asked about her.  So, even if I had told him, 
what right does she have to complain?
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Between that and her drinking the so-called non-alcoholic beer which 
actually has a certain percentage of alcohol in it, after I suggested 
to her several times NOT to do so, she calls me about her romantic (?) 
relationship and she knows it's codependent and she needs to make a 
complete and clean break, but she has not - to my knowledge.  She keeps
taking wine at the mass, although this is not necessary, and she stays 
in bed all day - even though I suggested this will only increase her 
depression. When I suggest exercise on her bike as something to do 
instead of sleep it's a "yeah, but I can't because...."  The other 
woman calls me up like I'm her shrink when she needs a doctor, or calls
ME for rides to AA when she knows I can't get there, or to complain 
about her brother-in-law a dry drunk, but she won't go to Al-Anon.  So 
I've just given up on AA and sponsorship for a while - I'm burnt out 
too.  I know where you're coming from.
--- TriToss (tm) Professional 10.0 - #66
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