From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... protectors either
flee or die, and he ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
2.
... protectors themselves
-- two emotions quite as unhealthy ...
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.
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