From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... invite domination
or revulsion in the protectors ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
Demands made upon other people for too much attention, protection,
and love can only invite domination or revulsion in the protectors themselves
-- two emotions quite as unhealthy as the
demands which evoked
them.
2.
... invite people
in for the same reason.
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
We could not be invited out
because I would surely get tight, and my wife dared not invite people in for the same reason.
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