From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... demands.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
Alcohol, now become the rapacious creditor, bleeds us of all
self-sufficiency and
all will to resist its demands.
2.
... demands.
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
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 p.52,
Step Four
4.
... demands.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
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 p.76,
Step Seven
6.
... demands are
threatened, to be envious when ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
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 p.115,
Step Twelve
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 p.116,
Step Twelve
9.
... demands had
been the cause.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
10.
Demands made
upon other people for too ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
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 p.109,
Step Twelve
12.
... demands rigorous
honesty.
BB p.58,
How It Works
They are naturally incapable of grasping
and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty.
13.
... demands rigorous
honesty.
BB p.145,
To Employers
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 p.122,
The Family Afterward
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 p.104,
Step Eleven
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 p.49,
Step Four
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 p.76,
Step Seven
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 p.93,
Step Ten
19.
... demands, we
were in a state of ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
Living upon a basis of unsatisfied
demands, we were in a state
of continual disturbance and frustration.
20.
... demands which
evoked them.
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
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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