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2021-06-04 at 8:55 PM UTC
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2021-06-04 at 8:56 PM UTC
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2021-06-04 at 8:58 PM UTC
Originally posted by Quick Mix Ready You only tell yourself this, not others other than AA.
The reason to remind you is so you wont say, ahh its a special party tonight, ive been sober for x years. You drink heavily and the urges become uncontrollable all over again. But anonymous users dont rat each other out
Yes PeedyButt I know the logic behind it. I still think its dumb. You shouldn't have to define yourself that way. If you're too stupid to remember that your drug of choice has ruined your life then you deserve to have it ruin you.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-06-07 at 12:27 AM UTCgo meet someone new and when you move in and have ur clutches around their life, relapse with your joint bank account, then get clean nd leave her.
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2021-06-07 at 12:43 AM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson If AA is anything like NA it's worthless…I went to a few NA meeting with a dude I was "sponsoring" (RE: I was the tit he'd phone at 2am to say he was feeling weak).
Those assholes just spent the whole hour glorifying it…telling their stories of what they got up to on drugs and everyone else laughing and saying "uuuhhhh yeah! that's sounds about right huh huh huh".
4:09am
*ring.. ring.. ring...ring*
"Hello?"
"I'm feeling weak.... can you help me?" -
2021-06-07 at 12:39 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-06-07 at 12:51 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson If AA is anything like NA it's worthless…I went to a few NA meeting with a dude I was "sponsoring" (RE: I was the tit he'd phone at 2am to say he was feeling weak).
Those assholes just spent the whole hour glorifying it…telling their stories of what they got up to on drugs and everyone else laughing and saying "uuuhhhh yeah! that's sounds about right huh huh huh".
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2021-06-07 at 1:04 PM UTC
Originally posted by mmQ Why were you sponsoring someone in AA anyway?
NA.
He was a young lad of 19 who worked from me at my last job and he needed to go to NA and have a sponsor who was a responsible person so he asked me his boss (I didn't give him any money but that's what they called them)...can't remember why he had to have one, I think he was on probation or something and it was a requirement.
...as if I could do shit if he decided to drink 4 bottles of cough syrup at 3am...I'd likely be like "Motherfucker waking me up at 3am...drink 100 fucking bottles" -
2021-06-07 at 1:15 PM UTCthe meetings were at a church but not in the church (they had a "house" around back for such crap). First day we got there I wasn't sure if it was the place because like i say it looked like a regular house...there were a couple of scallywags hanging outside so I said
"Is this where the NA meetings are held"?
One of said scallywags walked over to me and started to try and hug me...
I said "not me motherbitch, him" and pointed at the young lout. -
2021-06-07 at 1:17 PM UTCI was the hugs guy. You wouldnt have escaped me.
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2021-06-07 at 1:17 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson NA.
He was a young lad of 19 who worked from me at my last job and he needed to go to NA and have a sponsor who was a responsible person so he asked me his boss (I didn't give him any money but that's what they called them)…can't remember why he had to have one, I think he was on probation or something and it was a requirement.
…as if I could do shit if he decided to drink 4 bottles of cough syrup at 3am…I'd likely be like "Motherfucker waking me up at 3am…drink 100 fucking bottles"
Your sponsor is supposed to be someone in the program who also identifies as an addict, not just any person you want, lol. -
2021-06-07 at 1:18 PM UTCStick a needle in your arm, call it jiggle booty.
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2021-06-07 at 1:18 PM UTC
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2021-06-07 at 1:19 PM UTC
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2021-06-07 at 1:20 PM UTC
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2021-06-07 at 1:26 PM UTC
Originally posted by General Butt.Naked That makes it less fun. But more logisticallypractical to get that full body bro hug going
Approve
I can easily sense that I would enjoy a roight proppa hug with/from you. Good energy. I might even extend it beyond 5 or 10 seconds so we could spin around and walk in a circle like a carousel, bobbing up and down...circular..circular...all good things, harnessing the good energy, releasing the bad. -
2021-06-07 at 2:20 PM UTC
Originally posted by mmQ Your sponsor is supposed to be someone in the program who also identifies as an addict, not just any person you want, lol.
Dunno, from what I recall he was told to find a responsible person and at the time I was the only responsible person he knew lol...so he asked me. I asked him what was involved and he said "I'm supposed to call you for support if I feel like I'm going to abuse and it would be nice if you come to a couple of the meetings"
He was a good kid and thought I was fucking awesome so naturally when someone pets my ego I "helped a nigger out".
ETA: Maybe he lied to them and said I was a former addict and didn't tell me about that..the fucking little twat... -
2021-06-07 at 2:28 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Dunno, from what I recall he was told to find a responsible person and at the time I was the only responsible person he knew lol…so he asked me. I asked him what was involved and he said "I'm supposed to call you for support if I feel like I'm going to abuse and it would be nice if you come to a couple of the meetings"
He was a good kid and thought I was fucking awesome so naturally when someone pets my ego I "helped a nigger out".
ETA: Maybe he lied to them and said I was a former addict and didn't tell me about that..the fucking little twat…
Nah I get it, I mean at the end of the day it really shouldn't matter who sponsors you as long as, like you said, they're responsible and understand what it actually entails to fill that role. Its just more of a technicality that they say it needs to be someone in the program who has been sober for quite a while and can relate more closely to the actual struggles of the addict/alcoholic they're sponsoring.
Then again I find meetings to be cringe in general and the whole thing just isn't my cup of tea. Like if it works for you, neato mosquito do what you gotta do, but in my experience it's really just a complete replacement addiction and the people it works for end up revolving their lives around meetings and the AA/NA CULTure in general.
It doesn't exactly seem fun for me to focus my life around discussing the thing that I'm trying not to do anymore. I'd rather just move on and put it behind me. -
2021-06-07 at 2:32 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson ETA: Maybe he lied to them and said I was a former addict and didn't tell me about that..the fucking little twat…
And yes he probably did that lol. I actually did this once in a treatment program I was required to have a sponsor from AA. It was also in fact my boss at the time (who was in fact sober for 20+ years), but he by no means considered himself a sponsor nor had he been to a meeting in 20+ years.
Since this was all court-ordered I actually had to set up a meeting between him and my treatment counselor so she could verify I wasn't bullshitting her. He was cool enough to meet her and basically lie saying that he still went to meetings occasionally.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
