From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... home.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
2.
... home.
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
When we take such personality traits as
these into shop, office, and
the society of our fellows, they can do damage
almost as extensive as
that we have caused at home.
3.
... home?
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
Are we going to be so rigidly righteous about
making amends that we
don't care what happens to
the family and home?
4.
... home.
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
5.
... home.
BB p.81,
Into Action
6.
... home.
BB p.82,
Into Action
7.
... home.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
When your prospect has made such reparation as he can to his family, and has thoroughly explained
to them the new principles by which he is living, he should proceed to
put those principles into action at
home.
8.
... home.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
9.
... home.
BB p.106,
To Wives
10.
... home.
BB p.114,
To Wives
You draw more and more into yourself and you think everyone is talking about conditions
at your home.
11.
... home.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
12.
... home.
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
13.
... home.
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
14.
... home and
business.
BB p.143,
To Employers
We all had to place recovery above everything, for without
recovery we would have lost both home and business.
15.
... home and
hide it in the coal ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
If my wife was planning to
go out in the afternoon, I would get a large supply of liquor and smuggle it home and hide it in the coal bin, the clothes chute, over door jambs, over beams in the cellar, and in cracks in the cellar tile.
16.
... home and
make up the deficiency.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Instead of developing
new channels of activity for themselves, mother and children demand that he stay home and make up the deficiency.
17.
... home and
office.
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
18.
... home and
religious training had given us ...
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
19.
... home and
to bed, gave me a ...
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
He came and got me home and to bed, gave me a few drinks that night, and one bottle of beer the next morning.
20.
... home at
last.
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
21.
... home at
the disposal of this strangely ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
22.
... home, counseling
frantic wives and relatives, innumerable ...
BB p.97,
Working With Others
It may mean sharing your money and your home, counseling frantic wives and relatives, innumerable trips to police courts, sanitariums, hospitals, jails and asylums.
23.
... home did.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
24.
... home, did
I use this as a ...
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
25.
... home did
not shelter a little gathering ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
Seeing much of each other, scarce an evening passed that someone's home did not shelter a little gathering of men and women, happy in their release, and
constantly thinking
how they might present their discovery to some newcomer.
26.
... home drunk.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
27.
... home drunk.
BB p.120,
To Wives
Perhaps your husband will make a fair start on the new basis, but just as things are going beautifully he dismays you by coming home drunk.
28.
... home, educate
the kids, and set something ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
How could we ever take care of those awful debts, possess a decent home, educate the kids, and set something by for old age?
29.
... home exhausted,
but very happy.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
30.
... home exhausted
from the department store each ...
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
I thought of Lois coming home exhausted from the department store each day, only to cook supper for a houseful of drunks who weren't paying board.
31.
... home exhausted
to find me drunk.
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
32.
... home for
a few days.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
33.
... home from
here.
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
34.
... home from
the hospital.
BB p.110,
To Wives
35.
... home, getting
drunk, morning jitters, taking large ...
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
It was really a horrible
nightmare, this earning money, getting liquor, smuggling it home, getting drunk, morning jitters, taking large doses of sedatives to make it possible for me to earn more money, and so on ad nauseam.
36.
... home group.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
37.
... home has
suffered more than anything else, ...
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
38.
... home, I
found Lois cooking as usual, ...
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
Arriving home, I found Lois cooking as usual, while three drunks looked hungrily on from the kitchen door.
39.
... home if
he doesn't.
BB p.82,
Into Action
40.
... home if
they promised that I should ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
41.
... home in
jeopardy, wife ill, children distracted, ...
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
It was the usual situation: home in jeopardy, wife ill, children distracted, bills in arrears and standing damaged.
42.
... home in
turmoil.
BB p.82,
Into Action
43.
... home into
freedom.
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Many a man, yet dazed from his hospital experience,
has stepped over the threshold of that home into
freedom.
44.
... home is
a near-wreck and he cannot ...
BB p.110,
To Wives
45.
... home, is
happily married and the father ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
His income is good, he has a
fine home, is happily married and the father of promising children of college age.
46.
... home is
likely to be the husband.
BB p.104,
To Wives (Note)
(*) Written in 1939, when
there were few women in A.A., this chapter assumes that the alcoholic in the home is likely to be the husband.
47.
... home, leaving
behind his first acquaintance, the ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
He now returned home, leaving behind his first acquaintance, the lawyer and the devil-may-care chap.
48.
... home life
is ideal and my business ...
BB p.180,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
49.
... home more
than when he drank.
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
Her husband may become so
wrapped up in A.A. and his new friends that he is inconsiderately away
from home more than when he drank.
50.
... home, never
having it in the house, ...
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
Here are some of the methods we have tried: Drinking beer only, limiting the number of drinks, never drinking alone, never drinking in the morning, drinking only at
home, never having it in the
house, never drinking during business hours, drinking only at parties,
switching from scotch
to brandy, drinking only
natural wines, agreeing to resign if ever drunk on the job, taking a trip, not taking a trip, swearing off forever (with and without a
solemn oath), taking more physical exercise, reading inspirational
books, going to health farms and sanitariums, accepting voluntary commitment to asylums --
we could increase the list
ad infinitum.
51.
... home of
every problem drinker will be ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
52.
... home, often
with fine results.
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
53.
... home, or
burn a mattress.
BB p.97,
Working With Others
54.
... home or
in the world outside we ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Service, gladly rendered, obligations
squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in
the world outside we are
partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that
love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that
we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we
need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are
the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right
living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.
55.
... home --
our husbands thought we were so ...
BB p.106,
To Wives
The bill collectors, the
sheriffs, the angry taxi drivers, the policemen, the bums, the pals, and even the ladies they sometimes brought home -- our husbands thought we were
so inhospitable.
56.
... home plastered,
carrying a big potted plant ...
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
It was the day before Mother's Day and I had come home plastered, carrying a big potted plant which I set down on the table and forthwith went upstairs and passed out.
57.
... home ruined.
BB p.82,
Into Action
58.
... home situation,
you can undoubtedly make helpful ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
59.
... home that
evening, which in turn would ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
This would lessen my chances of smuggling some
home that evening, which in
turn would mean a night of futile tossing around in bed followed by a morning of unbearable jitters.
60.
... home to
father and mother.
BB p.106,
To Wives
61.
... home to
the work.
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
62.
... home to
thousands like him.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
63.
... home town
who managed to get me ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Finally my father had to
send a doctor out from my home town who managed to get me back there in some way, and I was in bed about two months before I could venture out of the house.
64.
... home upon
our alcoholic readers as it ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
This is a point we wish to emphasize and re-emphasize, to smash home upon our alcoholic readers as it
has been revealed to us out
of bitter experience.
65.
... home we
find a place where we ...
BB p.75,
Into Action
Returning home we find a place where we can be quiet for an hour, carefully reviewing
what we have done.
66.
... home we
were smothered with love or ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
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