From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
PROTECTION occurs
7 times
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1.
... protection.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
2.
... protection.
12&12 p.183,
Tradition Eleven
3.
... protection and
care.
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
If we really
depended upon
God, we couldn't very well
play God to our
fellows nor would we
feel the
urge wholly to
rely on
human protection and
care.
4.
... protection and
care with complete abandon.
BB p.59,
How It Works
We
asked His
protection and
care with
complete abandon.
5.
... protection, and
guidance of Alcoholics Anonymous?
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Isn't it
true that in all
matters touching upon
alcohol, each of them has
decided to
turn his or her
life over to the
care,
protection, and
guidance of
Alcoholics Anonymous?
6.
... protection, and
love can only invite domination ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
Demands made upon other people for too much
attention,
protection, and
love can only
invite domination or
revulsion in the
protectors themselves --
two
emotions quite as
unhealthy as the
demands
which
evoked them.
7.
... protection from
their father, it is best ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
Unless they
actually need protection from their
father, it is
best not to take
sides in any
argument he
has with them while
drinking.
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