From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... maternal care.
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
The wife usually goes on doing the best she knows how, but meanwhile the alcoholic
alternately loves and
hates her maternal care.
2.
... maternal instinct
to begin with, the situation ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
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