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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... families.
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
The
inquiring voices
are not all
alcoholics or their
families.
2.
... families.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
In one
western city and
its environs there are one
thousand of us and our
families.
3.
... families.
BB p.106,
To Wives
We finally
sought employment ourselves as
destitution faced us and
our
families.
4.
... families.
BB p.119,
To Wives
You have been
starving for his
companionship,
yet he
spends long hours helping other
men and their
families.
5.
... families.
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
This has
become the
basis
of a
rapidly growing fellowship of these
men and
their
families.
6.
... families and
communities.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
I have seen
men come out of
asylums and
resume a
vital place in the
lives of
their
families and
communities.
7.
... families and
friends sense that these drinkers ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
In a
vague way their
families
and
friends sense that
these
drinkers are
abnormal, but
everybody
hopefully awaits the
day when the
sufferer will
rouse himself from his
lethargy and
assert his
power of will.
8.
... families broken
apart by misunderstanding, tensions, or ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
We have sometimes seen
families broken apart by
misunderstanding,
tensions, or
actual infidelity, who are
reunited by the
A.A. way of
life.
9.
... families, but
the man who is getting ...
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
We
know there are
difficult wives and
families, but the
man who is
getting over
alcoholism
must remember he did much
to make them so.
10.
... families didn't
suffer, because we always paid ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
Our
families didn't
suffer,
because we always
paid the
bills and
seldom drank at
home.
11.
... families drive
long distances to be present.
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
12.
... families have
adopted this way of life.
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
Suppose now that through you several
families have
adopted this way of
life.
13.
... families have
not returned at all.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
We have seen
men get well whose
families have not
returned at
all.
14.
... families hit
the Foundation(*) letterbox in New ...
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
15.
... families, how
could they be so blind ...
BB p.107,
To Wives
And even if they did not
love their
families, how could they be so
blind about themselves?
16.
... families may
arrange for interviews or hospitalization.
BB p.573(575),
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A.
17.
... families of
Alcoholics Anonymous keep few skeletons ...
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
18.
... families realize,
as they start their journey, ...
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
Let
families realize, as
they
start their
journey,
that all will not be
fair weather.
19.
... families reassembled,
to see the alcoholic outcast ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
To
watch the
eyes of
men and
women open with
wonder as they
move from
darkness into
light, to see their
lives quickly fill with new
purpose and
meaning, to see
whole families reassembled, to see the
alcoholic outcast received back into his
community in
full citizenship, and above all to
watch these people
awaken to
the
presence of a
loving
God in their
lives -- these
things are the
substance of what we
receive as we
carry A.A.'s
message to the
next alcoholic.
20.
... families set
their feet in the path ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
I have seen
hundreds of
families set their
feet in the
path that really
goes somewhere; have seen the most
impossible domestic situations righted;
feuds and
bitterness of
all
sorts wiped out.
21.
... families still
struggling with their problem.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
This
painful past may be of
infinite value to other
families still
struggling with their
problem.
22.
... families that
we are really going to ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
The
moment we tell our
families that we are really
going
to
try the
program, the
process has
begun.
23.
... families, the
alcoholic who means well and ...
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
24.
... families, their
jobs, and even two cars ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
Alcoholics who still had their
health, their
families, their
jobs, and even
two cars in the
garage,
began to
recognize their
alcoholism.
25.
... families who
have lived with a drinker.
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
Seeing is
believing to most
families who have
lived with a
drinker.
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