From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... resist its
demands.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
Alcohol, now become the rapacious creditor, bleeds us of all
self-sufficiency and
all will to resist its demands.
2.
... resist the
impulse to drink.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
Following his physical rehabilitation, he had a talk with me in which he frankly stated he thought the treatment a
waste of effort, unless I could assure him,
which no one ever had, that in the future he
would have the "will power"
to resist the impulse to drink.
3.
... resist us
heavily.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
When we habitually try to
manipulate others to
our own willful desires, they revolt, and
resist us heavily.
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