From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
LOYALTY occurs
4 times
(
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1.
... loyalty.
BB p.145,
To Employers
With this
kind of
employee
such an
attitude will
command undying loyalty.
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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