ENDURED in Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous, 12 Steps and 12 Traditions

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... endured, and now fully understanding how much ... 12&12 p.119, Step Twelve

The alcoholic, realizing what his wife has endured, and now fully understanding how much he himself did to damage her and his children, nearly always takes up his marriage responsibilities with a willingness to repair what he can and to accept what he can't.

... endured or mastered. 12&12 p.107, Step Twelve

He has been set on a path which tells him he is really going somewhere, that life is not a dead end, not something to be endured or mastered.

... endured -- these are the conditions we have ... BB p.18, There Is A Solution

That the man who is making the approach has had the same difficulty, that he obviously knows what he is talking about, that his whole deportment shouts at the new prospect that he is a man with a real answer, that he has no attitude of Holier Than Thou, nothing whatever except the sincere desire to be helpful; that there are no fees to pay, no axes to grind, no people to please, no lectures to be endured -- these are the conditions we have found most effective.

... endured this agony two more years. BB p.6, Bill's Story

The mind and body are marvelous mechanisms, for mine endured this agony two more years.

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