From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... handicap.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
2.
... handicap had
been our lack of humility.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
In all these strivings, so many of them well-intentioned, our crippling handicap had been
our lack of humility.
3.
... handicap in
either will be likely to ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
They need to be as sure as possible that no deep-lying emotional handicap in either will be likely to rise up under later pressures to cripple them.
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