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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
OBLIGED occurs
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1.
... obliged in
some cases still to say, ...
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
Perhaps we shall be
obliged in some
cases still to say, "This I cannot
give up
yet...," but we should not
say to ourselves, "This I will
never give up!"
2.
... obliged to
admit that our justification for ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
But even in this
type of
beginning we are
obliged to
admit that our
justification for a
spree was
insanely insufficient in the
light of what always
happened.
3.
... obliged to
admit that they prefer to ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
But even these people, if they
construct a
list of still
milder defects, will be
obliged to
admit that they
prefer to
hang on to some of them.
4.
... obliged to
choose between the pains of ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
We are
obliged to
choose
between the
pains of
trying
and the
certain penalties of
failing to
do so.
5.
... obliged to
conform to group opinion.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
6.
... obliged to
discharge him for drinking, though ...
BB p.137,
To Employers
I had been
obliged to
discharge him for
drinking, though he was
brilliant,
alert, and one
of the
best organizers I
have ever
known.
7.
... obliged to
put him away.
BB p.110,
To Wives
Maybe you have already been
obliged to
put him away.
8.
... obliged to
separate for a time until ...
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
Husbands and
wives have
sometimes been
obliged to
separate for a
time until new
perspective, new
victory over
hurt pride could be
rewon.
9.
... obliged to
talk to this man on ...
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
"Now,"
concludes the
oldtimer, "
suppose I'd
been
obliged to
talk to this
man on
religious grounds?
10.
... obliged to
tell your husband's employer and ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
Frequently, you have
felt obliged to tell your
husband's
employer and his
friends that he was
sick,
when as a
matter of
fact he
was
tight.
11.
... obliged to
treat father as a sick ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
By
force of
circumstances, she was often
obliged to
treat father as a
sick or
wayward child.
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