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... demands.
12&12
Step One, p.21
Alcohol, now become the rapacious creditor, bleeds us of all self-sufficiency and all will to resist its demands.
2.
... demands.
12&12
Step Two, p.28
There will be those who have drifted into indifference, those filled with self-sufficiency who have cut themselves off, those who
have become prejudiced
against religion, and those who are downright defiant because God has failed to fulfill their demands.
3.
... demands?
12&12
Step Four, p.52
4.
... demands.
12&12
Step Four, p.53
If we lean too heavily on people, they will sooner or later fail us, for they are human, too,
and cannot possibly meet our
incessant demands.
5.
... demands.
12&12
Step Seven, p.76
6.
... demands are
threatened, to be envious when ...
12&12
Step Four, p.49
Unreasonable fear that
our instincts will not be
satisfied drives us to covet the possessions of others, to lust for sex and power, to become angry when our instinctive demands are threatened, to be envious
when the ambitions of others seem to be realized while ours are not.
7.
... demands for
attention become unreasonable.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.115
We had refused to learn the
very hard lesson that overdependence upon people is unsuccessful because all people are fallible, and even the best of them will sometimes let us down, especially when our
demands for attention become unreasonable.
8.
... demands for
repayment.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.116
9.
... demands had
been the cause.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.115
10.
Demands made
upon other people for too ...
12&12
Step Four, p.44
Demands made upon other people for too much attention, protection,
and love can only invite domination or revulsion
in the protectors themselves -- two emotions quite as unhealthy as the demands which
evoked them.
11.
... demands nothing.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.109
12.
... demands rigorous
honesty.
BB
How It Works, p.58
They are naturally incapable of grasping and
developing a manner of
living which demands rigorous honesty.
13.
... demands rigorous
honesty.
BB
To Employers, p.145
In fact, he may say almost anything if he has accepted our solution
which, as you know, demands rigorous honesty.
14.
... demands that
the others concede to him, ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.122
We find the more one member of the family demands that the others concede to him, the more resentful they become.
15.
... demands upon
God to give it to ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.104
We discover that we do receive guidance for our lives to just about the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on order and on our
terms.
16.
... demands upon
ourselves or upon others which ...
12&12
Step Four, p.49
Pride lures us into making demands upon ourselves or upon others which cannot be met without perverting or misusing
our God-given instincts.
17.
... demands upon
ourselves, upon others, and upon ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.76
We now clearly see that we have been making unreasonable demands upon ourselves, upon others, and upon God.
18.
... demands upon
those we love.
12&12
Step Ten, p.93
19.
... demands, we
were in a state of ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.76
Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of continual disturbance
and frustration.
20.
... demands which
evoked them.
12&12
Step Four, p.44
Demands made upon other people for too much attention, protection,
and love can only invite domination or revulsion
in the protectors themselves -- two emotions quite as unhealthy as the demands which
evoked them.
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