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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
WORSE occurs
21 times
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1.
... worse.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
At the
time of these
occurrences, they may
actually have
given our
emotions violent twists which have since
discolored our
personalities and
altered our
lives for the
worse.
2.
... worse.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
Gradually things got
worse.
3.
... worse.
BB p.68,
How It Works
When it made us
cocky, it was
worse.
4.
... worse.
BB p.110,
To Wives
Though once like
number two
he
became worse.
5.
... worse.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
It is of
little use to
argue and only makes the
impasse worse.
6.
... worse by
the things he does on ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
The
inconsistency is made
worse by the things he does on his
sprees.
7.
... worse, for
we had learned that these ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
If our
circumstances happened to be
good, we no
longer dreaded a
change for the
worse, for we
had
learned that these
troubles could be
turned
into
great values.
8.
... worse, he
begins to use a combination ...
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
9.
... worse matters
got.
BB p.66,
How It Works
But the more we
fought and
tried to have our
own way, the
worse matters got.
10.
... worse mess
of trying to live by ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
But we are
sure that no
class
of people in the
world ever made a
worse mess of
trying to
live by this
formula than
alcoholics.
11.
... worse, money
was only an urgent requirement ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
When our
drinking had
become much
worse,
money was only an
urgent requirement which could
supply us with the
next drink and the
temporary comfort of
oblivion it
brought.
12.
... worse, never
better.
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
13.
... worse relapse.
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
In some
instances there has been
brief recovery,
followed always by a still
worse relapse.
14.
... worse stigmatized
than alcoholism, you may not ...
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
Since I am the
victim of another
addiction even
worse stigmatized than
alcoholism, you may not
want me among you.
15.
... worse still,
laughter.
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
He and all like him who "
view with
alarm for the
good of
A.A."
meet the most
stubborn resistance or,
worse still,
laughter.
16.
... worse than
he realized.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
The
doctor intimated strongly that he might be
worse than he
realized.
17.
... worse than
other people.
BB p.81,
Into Action
We
doubt if, in this
respect,
alcoholics are
fundamentally much
worse than other people.
18.
... worse than
the distant alcoholics who had ...
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
19.
... worse than
the last time.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
Following each, he not only
drinks again, but
acts worse than the
last time.
20.
... worse than
those of anyone else in ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
They
comfort the
melancholy one by
first showing him that his
case is
not
strange or
different, that his
character defects are
probably not more
numerous or
worse than those
of anyone else in
A.A.
21.
... worse, the
husband becomes a sick and ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
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