From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... families.
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
2.
... families.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
3.
... families.
BB p.106,
To Wives
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
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
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
13.
... families have
not returned at all.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
14.
... families hit
the Foundation(*) letterbox in New ...
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
He explains that when Jack
Alexander's Saturday
Evening Post piece broke in 1941, thousands of frantic letters from distraught alcoholics
and their families hit the Foundation(*) letterbox in New York.
15.
... families, how
could they be so blind ...
BB p.107,
To Wives
16.
... families may
arrange for interviews or hospitalization.
BB p.573(575),
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A.
In large cities, groups often maintain local offices where alcoholics
or their families may arrange for interviews
or hospitalization.
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
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
22.
... families that
we are really going to ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
23.
... families, the
alcoholic who means well and ...
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
To clergymen, doctors,
friends, and families, the
alcoholic who means well and tries hard is a heartbreaking
riddle.
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
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