Hey Christina,

Nice to see you posting around this forum again. Well done on not drinking through the exam stress. I heard about the bus strike from my stepmom who lives in Ottawa, what a pain. And it would have to happen in winter.

I totally get how annoying it can be when someone self appoints themselves as your sponsor. There's one woman here who does it constantly with newcomers. Sigh she means well but...

Having a good sponsor who you click with can make a really big difference, so I'd really think about calling someone you think you'd get along with. Also think about what you need from a sponsor, so that you can discuss that with them early on so that you don't have totally different expectations of each other.

As for getting to meetings. I know sometimes it can be a drag going to them. I find especially in winter that some evenings I'd rather just stay in my nice warm apartment, then go out at night. The thing is I always here something worthwhile at a meeting, and I usually leave feeling better than I did walking in, so I'd really encourage you to start going again.

Whatever happened to the meetings on campus? I seem to recall you thinking that there were going to be some, did it not just happen?

One thing that's been big for me is finally connecting with a group of women my own age, who are all in similar stages of sobriety (between 3 months and 3 years) For a while all the women I knew were a lot older and had been sober for like 15-20 years, so I had trouble relating to them. But now that I've met a younger group and we're all kind of struggling with the same things it's a lot better. I've even joined a Sun. night step study group with a bunch of them, which has turned into my favourite meeting.

But if you need someone ot yell at you to go to meetings, I'll happily fill that role.

--splitimage