From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... deficiency.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Instead of developing
new channels of activity for themselves, mother and children demand that he stay home and make up the deficiency.
2.
... deficiency --
he will know of it.
BB p.120,
To Wives
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