From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
INTIMATE occurs
7 times
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1.
... intimate and
confidential step.
BB p.74,
Into Action
Rightly and
naturally,
we
think well before we
choose the
person or
persons with whom to take this
intimate and
confidential step.
2.
... intimate and
harrowing aspects of his case ...
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
3.
... intimate experiences
of another person unless we ...
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
Another
principle we
observe carefully is that
we do not
relate intimate experiences of another
person unless we are
sure he would
approve.
4.
... intimate friends?
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
How could we
know that
thousands of these sometimes
frightening people were to make
astonishing recoveries and
become our
greatest workers and
intimate friends?
5.
... intimate friends
usually find us even more ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
Strangely enough,
wives,
parents and
intimate friends usually find us
even more
unapproachable than do the
psychiatrist and the
doctor.
6.
... intimate information.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
This is a
condition which, in
ordinary life, would
produce untold grief; there might be
scandalous gossip,
laughter at the
expense of
other people, and a
tendency to take
advantage of
intimate information.
7.
... intimate situation.
BB p.82,
Into Action
No
outsider can
appraise such an
intimate situation.
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