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... hurt.
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
We got a pretty severe shock when we realized that we were preparing to make a face-to-face admission of our wretched conduct to those we had hurt.
2.
... hurt.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
3.
... hurt.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
4.
... hurt.
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
5.
... hurt.
BB p.62,
How It Works
Sometimes they hurt us,
seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at
some time in the past we have
made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt.
6.
... hurt?
BB p.69,
How It Works
Whom had we hurt?
7.
... hurt.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
8.
... hurt a
great deal.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
9.
... hurt and
confused when the advice is ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
Then we are hurt and confused when the advice is
rejected, or when it is accepted and brings still greater confusion.
10.
... hurt and
depressed.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
11.
... hurt and
disappointed.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
12.
... hurt, and
how badly?
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
13.
... hurt, and
in what ways.
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
To a degree, he has already done this when taking moral inventory, but now the time has come when he ought to redouble his efforts to see how many people he has hurt, and in what ways.
14.
... hurt, and
left out as they witness ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
At first many of these feel lonely, hurt, and left out as they witness so much domestic happiness about them.
15.
... hurt anybody
but ourselves.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
16.
... hurt by
our conduct, and are willing ...
BB p.70,
How It Works
We have listed the people
we have hurt by our conduct, and are willing to
straighten out the past if we can.
17.
... hurt by
people who, like us, are ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
It will become more and more evident as we go forward that it is pointless to become angry, or to get hurt by people who, like us, are suffering from
the pains of growing up.
18.
... hurt feelings,
a sense of persecution, and ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
19.
... hurt feelings
and resentments.
BB p.117,
To Wives
20.
... hurt feelings
is a wonderful thing.
BB p.116,
To Wives
When we do that, we find it solves our problems too;
the ensuing lack of fear, worry and hurt feelings is a wonderful thing.
21.
... hurt feelings,
it was probable we couldn't ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Because we were still bothered by fear, self-pity, and hurt feelings, it was probable we couldn't appraise ourselves fairly at all.
22.
... hurt him
a bit, even though he ...
BB p.144,
To Employers
23.
... hurt me
on a full stomach.
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
"Suddenly the thought
crossed my mind that if I
were to put an ounce of whiskey in my milk it couldn't
hurt me on a full stomach.
24.
... hurt or
threatened.
BB p.65,
How It Works
In most cases it was found
that our self-esteem, our pocketbooks, our ambitions, our personal
relationships (including sex) were hurt or threatened.
25.
... hurt or
toward whom I felt resentment.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
26.
... hurt pride
could be rewon.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
Husbands and wives have
sometimes been obliged
to separate for a time until new perspective, new victory over hurt pride could be rewon.
27.
... hurt pride
-- did the same thing.
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
28.
... hurt pride,
frustration, self-pity, misunderstanding and fear.
BB p.104,
To Wives
29.
... hurt pride
might be the smoke screen ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Or anger and hurt pride might be the smoke screen under which we were hiding some of our defects
while we blamed others for them.
30.
... hurt some
more.
BB p.95,
Working With Others
31.
... hurt them
and make them unhappy.
BB p.74,
Into Action
It may be one of our own family, but we cannot disclose anything to our
wives or our parents which
will hurt them and make them unhappy.
32.
... hurt those
we love because they need ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
We sometimes hurt those we love because they need to be "taught a lesson," when we really want to punish.
33.
... hurt us
and others, then the need ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather
not remember, if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.
34.
... hurt us,
seemingly without provocation, but we ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
Sometimes they hurt us,
seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at
some time in the past we have
made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt.
35.
... hurt, we
may feel diffident about going ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
As we look over the list of business acquaintances and friends we have hurt, we may
feel diffident about going to some of them on a spiritual basis.
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