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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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1.
... woman.   12&12 p.29, Step Two
Now we come to another kind of problem: the intellectually self-sufficient man or woman.


2.
... woman alcoholic -- whether she is still drinking ...   BB p.104, To Wives (Note)   Go to page 104 in the Big Book
But many of the suggestions given here may be adapted to help the person who lives with a woman alcoholic -- whether she is still drinking or is recovering in A.A.


3.
... woman, and child, is the fundamental idea ...   BB p.55, We Agnostics   Go to page 55 in the Big Book
Actually we were fooling ourselves, for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God.

4.
... woman came to A.A. because of such ...   12&12 p.186, Tradition Twelve
Many a new man and woman came to A.A. because of such conversations.


5.
... woman could be excluded from our Society; ...   BB xix, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
It was thought that no alcoholic man or woman could be excluded from our Society; that our leaders might serve but never govern; that each group was to be autonomous and there was to be no professional class of therapy.

6.
... woman, for example, should be in too ...   12&12 p.38, Step Three
No adult man or woman, for example, should be in too much emotional dependence upon a parent.


7.
... woman forever.   BB p.106, To Wives   Go to page 106 in the Big Book
In the midst of such pandemonium they may have rushed out threatening to live with the other woman forever.

8.
... woman has a spiritual awakening, the most ...   12&12 p.106, Step Twelve
When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening, the most important meaning of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone.


9.
... woman is and where she is.   BB p.81, Into Action   Go to page 81 in the Big Book
She will want to know who the woman is and where she is.


10.
... woman's voice came faintly over long distance ...   BB p.137, To Employers   Go to page 137 in the Big Book
Still another experience: A woman's voice came faintly over long distance from Virginia.


11.
... woman who has an alcoholic husband.   BB p.108, To Wives   Go to page 108 in the Big Book
These are some of the questions which race through the mind of every woman who has an alcoholic husband.


12.
... woman who has gone through what you ...   BB p.119, To Wives   Go to page 119 in the Big Book
They need the counsel and love of a woman who has gone through what you have.

13.
... woman who has joined A.A. and intends ...   12&12 p.35, Step Three
Every man and woman who has joined A.A. and intends to stick has, without realizing it, made a beginning on Step Three.


14.
... woman who has sent her husband to ...   BB p.101, Working With Others   Go to page 101 in the Big Book
Ask any woman who has sent her husband to distant places on the theory he would escape the alcohol problem.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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