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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... home.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
Our
families didn't
suffer, because we always
paid
the
bills and
seldom drank at
home.
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
If we have no such
complication, there is
plenty we should do at
home.
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
That is, if he is
lucky enough to have a
home.
9.
... home.
BB p.106,
To Wives
An
armored car could not
have brought the
pay envelopes home.
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
The
head of the
house ought
to
remember that he is
mainly to
blame for what
befell his
home.
12.
... home.
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
Being
intrigued, however, he
invited our
friend to his
home.
13.
... 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.
14.
... 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.
15.
... home and
office.
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
Things go well at
home and
office.
16.
... home and
religious training had given us ...
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
17.
... home at
last.
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
Twenty-
two, and a
veteran of
foreign wars, I went
home at
last.
18.
... home at
the disposal of this strangely ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
19.
... home, counseling
frantic wives and relatives, innumerable ...
BB p.97,
Working With Others
20.
... home did.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
They had even
fewer alcoholic lapses or
emotional binges than
A.A.'s
safe at
home did.
21.
... home, did
I use this as a ...
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
If there was
rejection or
coldness at
home, did I use
this as a
reason for
promiscuity?
22.
... 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.
23.
... home drunk.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
24.
... 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.
25.
... 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?
26.
... home exhausted,
but very happy.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
27.
... home exhausted
from the department store each ...
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
28.
... home exhausted
to find me drunk.
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
29.
... home for
a few days.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
Perhaps you will
want to take the
man into your
home for a few
days.
30.
... home from
here.
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
The
last three times, I got
drunk on the way
home from here.
31.
... home from
the hospital.
BB p.110,
To Wives
Sometimes he
drinks on the way
home from the
hospital.
32.
... home group.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
Then, too, he
misses his
home group.
33.
... home has
suffered more than anything else, ...
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
Since the
home has
suffered more than anything else, it is well that a
man exert himself there.
34.
... home, I
found Lois cooking as usual, ...
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
35.
... home if
he doesn't.
BB p.82,
Into Action
Certainly he
must keep sober, for there will be no
home if he doesn't.
36.
... home in
jeopardy, wife ill, children distracted, ...
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
37.
... home in
turmoil.
BB p.82,
Into Action
38.
... 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.
39.
... home is
a near-wreck and he cannot ...
BB p.110,
To Wives
His
friends have
slipped
away, his
home is a
near-
wreck and he cannot
hold a
position.
40.
... home, is
happily married and the father ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
41.
... 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.
42.
... home, leaving
behind his first acquaintance, the ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
43.
... 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.
44.
... 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.
45.
... home of
every problem drinker will be ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
Then that
terrible tension which
grips the
home of every
problem drinker will be
lessened.
46.
... home, often
with fine results.
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
He
persistently tries
all of
A.A.'s
Twelve Steps in his
home, often with
fine results.
47.
... home, or
burn a mattress.
BB p.97,
Working With Others
A
drunk may
smash the
furniture in your
home, or
burn a
mattress.
48.
... 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.
49.
... 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.
50.
... home ruined.
BB p.82,
Into Action
He is like the
farmer who
came up out of his
cyclone cellar to find his
home ruined.
51.
... home situation,
you can undoubtedly make helpful ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
52.
... home to
father and mother.
BB p.106,
To Wives
Perhaps at this
point we got a
divorce and took the
children home to
father and
mother.
53.
... home to
the work.
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
This
couple has since
become so
fascinated that
they have
dedicated their
home to the
work.
54.
... home to
thousands like him.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
We
hope it
strikes home to
thousands like him.
55.
... 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.
56.
... 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.
57.
... home we
were smothered with love or ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We had to
drink because at
home we were
smothered with
love or got
none at all.
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