From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
ADULT occurs
3 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... adult dreams
were often truly childish.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
We would not
believe that our
adult dreams were often
truly childish.
2.
... adult in
years we were still behaving ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
We had
failed to see that though
adult in
years we were still
behaving childishly,
trying to
turn everybody --
friends,
wives,
husbands, even the
world itself -- into
protective parents.
3.
... adult man
or woman, for example, should ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
No
adult man or
woman, for
example, should be
in too much
emotional dependence upon a
parent.
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