From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... parents.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
We had failed to see that though adult in years we were still behaving childishly, trying to turn everybody -- friends, wives, husbands, even the world itself -- into protective
parents.
2.
... parents.
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
3.
... parents.
BB p.115,
To Wives
4.
... parents and
intimate friends usually find us ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
Strangely enough, wives, parents and intimate friends usually find us even more unapproachable than do the psychiatrist and the doctor.
5.
... parents --
anyone can increase the list.
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
It brings misunderstanding, fierce resentment, financial insecurity,
disgusted friends and
employers, warped lives of blameless children, sad wives and parents -- anyone can increase the list.
6.
... parents could
not make out whether he ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
He proved to be a devil-may-care young fellow whose parents could not make out whether he wanted to stop drinking or not.
7.
... parents for
desertion.
BB p.106,
To Wives
8.
... parents, lending
money and securing jobs for ...
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
Cleaning up old scrapes, helping to settle family differences, explaining the disinherited son to his irate parents, lending money and securing jobs for each other, when justified -- these are everyday occurrences.
9.
... parents which
will hurt them and make ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
It may be one of our own family, but we cannot disclose anything to our
wives or our parents which will hurt them and make them unhappy.
10.
... parents whom
for years he has so ...
BB p.82,
Into Action
But he is yet a long way from making good to the wife or parents whom for years he has so shockingly treated.
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