“After satisfying yourself that your man wants to recover and that he will go to any extreme to do so, you may suggest a definite course of action.” (Page 142, Big Book)
From the sponsee’s point of view, the sponsor is coming
along with a toenail clipper. After the first snip, the sponsee looks down, and
discovers a toe missing. He gives him the benefit of the doubt, but, after the
second toe is sliced off, the sponsee rightly realises the sponsor is not there
to help him; he’s here to destroy him, or, rather, not him, but his ego, which
will in fact be a liberation.
Unless one understands the nature of what is being
destroyed, i.e. the self, which is the problem, one will resist.