From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... marriage and
injure my children?
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
2.
... marriage breakups
and separations, however, are unusual ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
3.
... marriage is
ever going to be happy ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
4.
... marriage partnership
and compatible union.
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
When alcoholism strikes, very unnatural situations
may develop which work against marriage partnership and compatible union.
5.
... marriage responsibilities
with a willingness to repair ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
The alcoholic, realizing what his wife has
endured, and now fully understanding how
much he himself did to damage her and his children, nearly always takes up his marriage responsibilities with a willingness to repair
what he can and to accept what he can't.
6.
... marriage; who
think that most of the ...
BB p.69,
How It Works
Then we have the voices who cry for sex and more sex; who bewail the institution
of marriage; who think that
most of the troubles of the race are traceable to sex causes.
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