From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... unbearable.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
2.
... unbearable and
you have to leave him ...
BB p.111,
To Wives
Even though your husband becomes unbearable and you have to leave
him temporarily, you should, if you can, go without rancor.
3.
... unbearable --
could be extended almost indefinitely.
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Such a roster of harms done others -- the kind that make daily living with us as practicing alcoholics
difficult and often
unbearable -- could be extended almost indefinitely.
4.
... unbearable jitters.
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
This would lessen my chances of smuggling some
home that evening, which in
turn would mean a night of futile tossing around in bed followed by a morning of unbearable jitters.
5.
... unbearable mental
and physical suffering.
BB p.41,
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