From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
EXPECT occurs
9 times
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1.
... 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
You would
expect him, if he were
normal, to
cut it out.
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
He does not
expect his
brother sufferer to
pay him, or even to
love him.
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
We
must be
entirely honest with somebody if we
expect to
live long or
happily in this
world.
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
Yet you
must not
expect too much.
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