From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
MARRIAGE occurs
6 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... marriage and
injure my children?
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
Did I
spoil my
marriage and
injure my
children?
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
Both of them
blame each other and
ask when their
marriage is ever
going to be
happy again.
4.
... marriage partnership
and compatible union.
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
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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