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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
RESPONSIBILITIES occurs
10 times
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1.
... responsibilities.
BB p.137,
To Employers
Nearly every
modern employer feels a
moral responsibility
for the well-being of his
help, and he
tries to
meet these
responsibilities.
2.
... responsibilities, but
be sure you are doing ...
BB p.97,
Working With Others
Never avoid these
responsibilities, but be
sure you
are doing the
right thing if you
assume them.
3.
... responsibilities for
the mental health of the ...
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
He got in
touch with a
prominent psychiatrist who had
undertaken certain responsibilities for the
mental health of the
community.
4.
... responsibilities gallantly.
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
She
met these
responsibilities
gallantly.
5.
... responsibilities --
his family and the men who ...
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
But what about his
responsibilities -- his
family and the
men who would
die because they would not
know
how to get well,
ah -- yes, those other
alcoholics?
6.
... responsibilities, they
can participate in enterprises which ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
Free of
marital responsibilities, they can
participate in
enterprises which would be
denied to
family men and
women.
7.
... responsibilities to
act as they see the ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Nor does it
mean that the
members of
Alcoholics Anonymous, now
restored
as
citizens of the
world,
are
going to back away from their
individual responsibilities
to
act as they see the
right
upon
issues of our
time.
8.
... responsibilities to
the world at large?
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
Can we
meet our
newly recognized responsibilities
to the
world at
large?
9.
... responsibilities with
a willingness to repair what ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
The
alcoholic,
realizing what his
wife has
endured, and now
fully understanding how much he himself did to
damage her and his
children,
nearly always
takes up his
marriage responsibilities with a
willingness to
repair
what he can and to
accept what he can't.
10.
... responsibilities with
his own resources, never grows ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
This
weak one,
failing to
meet life's
responsibilities with his
own resources,
never grows up.
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