From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... loyalty.
BB p.145,
To Employers
2.
... loyalty and
the desire that our husbands ...
BB p.105,
To Wives
Our loyalty and the desire
that our husbands hold up their heads and be like other men have begotten all sorts of predicaments.
3.
... loyalty could
not cure our husbands of ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
Another feeling we are
very likely to entertain is one of resentment that love and
loyalty could not cure our husbands of alcoholism.
4.
... loyalty to
my wife, helped at times ...
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
There had been no real infidelity, for loyalty to
my wife, helped at times by extreme drunkenness, kept me out of those scrapes.
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