From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
FAILING occurs
3 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... failing perfection,
have gone to the other ...
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
We are all
perfectionists who,
failing perfection, have
gone to the other
extreme and
settled for the
bottle
and the
blackout.
2.
... failing to
do so.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
We are
obliged to
choose
between the
pains of
trying
and the
certain penalties of
failing to do
so.
3.
... failing to
meet life's responsibilities with his ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
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