From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
COMPANIONSHIP occurs
9 times
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1.
... companionship among
women who knew her problem, ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Many a
distracted wife
has
visited this
house to
find
loving and
understanding companionship among
women who
knew her
problem, to
hear from the
lips of their
husbands what had
happened to them, to be
advised how her
own wayward mate might be
hospitalized and
approached when
next he
stumbled.
2.
... companionship and
approval.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
Some of us
sought out
sordid places,
hoping to find
understanding companionship and
approval.
3.
... companionship and
colorful imagination.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
4.
... companionship and
release.
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
In there he would find
companionship and
release.
5.
... companionship and
your help.
BB p.111,
To Wives
They
need your
companionship
and your
help.
6.
... companionship --
are perfectly necessary and right, and ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
So these
desires -- for the
sex relation, for
material and
emotional
security, and for
companionship -- are
perfectly
necessary and
right, and
surely God-
given.
7.
... companionship, but
never getting it -- at least ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
Either we were
shy, and
dared
not
draw near others, or we
were
apt to be
noisy good fellows craving attention and
companionship, but
never getting it -- at
least to our
way of
thinking.
8.
... companionship with
his Creator.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
For the
first time, he
lived in
conscious companionship with his
Creator.
9.
... companionship, yet
he spends long hours helping ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
You have been
starving for his
companionship,
yet he
spends long hours helping other
men and their
families.
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