Missteps on the Twelfth Step

A LETTER TO the AA Grapevine began, "I've just had a slip, after only three weeks in AA. It was only a one-night stand, but I was scared, scared I couldn't stop. So I called my sponsor to talk it over. He came, all right, but we didn't talk. He lectured! Demanded to know why I hadn't remembered the things he had taught me, why I did this, why I didn't do that, etc. It sounded just like before AA. Why, why, why? Gosh, those were the things I had hoped he could tell me! If another AA hadn't got hold of me that same day, I don't think I would have come back to the group."