PO Box 1980

I just wanted to comment on the sponsorship articles in the September Grapevine. I think sponsors tend to make newcomers feel small, insecure, helpless, hopeless, dependent, weak, not personally responsible for themselves or for caring for their disease. Sponsorship has an effect of putting the new ones under stress, putting them in a demanding atmosphere, putting expectations upon them, and giving them feelings of meeting requirements or standards. The new one gets a needless sense of guilt and failure put into him. He worries over letting his sponsor down. Then there is the element of loss of freedom. He is controlled right away by letting his sponsor do his thinking.