From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... expect all
our character defects to be ...
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
This does not mean that we expect all our character defects to be lifted out of us as the drive to drink was.
2.
... expect from
confiding our defects to another ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
Another great dividend we may expect from
confiding our defects
to another human being is humility -- a word often misunderstood.
3.
... expect him,
if he were normal, to ...
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
4.
... expect him
to give them the nice ...
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
They expect him to give them
the nice times they used to have before he drank so much, and to show his contrition for
what they suffered.
5.
... expect his
brother sufferer to pay him, ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
6.
... expect sobriety,
progress, and any real ability ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
But all who are in the least reasonable will agree upon one point: that there is plenty wrong with us alcoholics about which plenty will have to be done if we are to expect sobriety, progress, and
any real ability to cope with life.
7.
... expect to
live long or happily in ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
8.
... expect to
receive.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
Then only might I expect to receive.
9.
... expect too
much.
BB p.118,
To Wives
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