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


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1.
  ... home.  BB Bill's Story, p.16
One poor chap committed suicide in my home.


2.
  ... home.  BB Into Action, p.81
But drinking does complicate sex relations in the home.


3.
  ... home.  BB Into Action, p.82
If we have no such complication, there is plenty we should do at home.


4.
  ... home.  BB Working With Others, p.98
When your prospect has made such reparation as he can to his family, and has thoroughly explained to them the new principles by which he is living, he should proceed to put those principles into action at home.


5.
  ... home.  BB Working With Others, p.98
That is, if he is lucky enough to have a home.


6.
  ... home.  BB To Wives, pp.105-106
An armored car could not have brought the pay envelopes home.


7.
  ... home.  BB To Wives, p.114
You draw more and more into yourself and you think everyone is talking about conditions at your home.


8.
  ... home.  BB The Family Afterward, p.127
The head of the house ought to remember that he is mainly to blame for what befell his home.


9.
  ... home.  BB A Vision For You, p.155
Being intrigued, however, he invited our friend to his home.


10.
  ... home.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
I remember nothing from then on until I woke up at a friend's house, in a town near home.


11.
  ... home.  12&12 Step Eight, p.79
Our families didn't suffer, because we always paid the bills and seldom drank at home.


12.
  ... home.  12&12 Step Eight, p.81
When we take such personality traits as these into shop, office, and the society of our fellows, they can do damage almost as extensive as that we have caused at home.


13.
  ... home?  12&12 Step Nine, p.86
Are we going to be so rigidly righteous about making amends that we don't care what happens to the family and home?


14.
  ... home and business.  BB To Employers, p.143
We all had to place recovery above everything, for without recovery we would have lost both home and business.


15.
  ... home and hide it in the coal ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
If my wife was planning to go out in the afternoon, I would get a large supply of liquor and smuggle it home and hide it in the coal bin, the clothes chute, over door jambs, over beams in the cellar, and in cracks in the cellar tile.


16.
  ... home and make up the deficiency.  BB The Family Afterward, p.131
Instead of developing new channels of activity for themselves, mother and children demand that he stay home and make up the deficiency.


17.
  ... home and office.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.112
Things go well at home and office.


18.
  ... home and religious training had given us ...  12&12 Step Two, pp.28-29
Of course, we were glad that good home and religious training had given us certain values.


19.
  ... home and to bed, gave me a ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
He came and got me home and to bed, gave me a few drinks that night, and one bottle of beer the next morning.


20.
  ... home at last.  BB Bill's Story, p.1
Twenty-two, and a veteran of foreign wars, I went home at last.


21.
  ... home at the disposal of this strangely ...  BB A Vision For You, p.160
One man and his wife placed their large home at the disposal of this strangely assorted crowd.


22.
  ... home, counseling frantic wives and relatives, innumerable ...  BB Working With Others, p.97
It may mean sharing your money and your home, counseling frantic wives and relatives, innumerable trips to police courts, sanitariums, hospitals, jails and asylums.


23.
  ... home did.  12&12 Step Three, p.38
They had even fewer alcoholic lapses or emotional binges than A.A.'s safe at home did.


24.
  ... home, did I use this as a ...  12&12 Step Four, p.51
If there was rejection or coldness at home, did I use this as a reason for promiscuity?


25.
  ... home did not shelter a little gathering ...  BB A Vision For You, p.159
Seeing much of each other, scarce an evening passed that someone's home did not shelter a little gathering of men and women, happy in their release, and constantly thinking how they might present their discovery to some newcomer.


26.
  ... home drunk.  BB Bill's Story, p.5
Shortly afterward I came home drunk.


27.
  ... home drunk.  BB To Wives, p.120
Perhaps your husband will make a fair start on the new basis, but just as things are going beautifully he dismays you by coming home drunk.


28.
  ... home, educate the kids, and set something ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.121
How could we ever take care of those awful debts, possess a decent home, educate the kids, and set something by for old age?


29.
  ... home exhausted, but very happy.  BB A Vision For You, p.156
At midnight he came home exhausted, but very happy.


30.
  ... home exhausted from the department store each ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.136
I thought of Lois coming home exhausted from the department store each day, only to cook supper for a houseful of drunks who weren't paying board.


31.
  ... home exhausted to find me drunk.  BB Bill's Story, p.4
My wife began to work in a department store, coming home exhausted to find me drunk.


32.
  ... home for a few days.  BB Working With Others, p.96
Perhaps you will want to take the man into your home for a few days.


33.
  ... home from here.  BB A Vision For You, p.157
The last three times, I got drunk on the way home from here.


34.
  ... home from the hospital.  BB To Wives, p.110
Sometimes he drinks on the way home from the hospital.


35.
  ... home, getting drunk, morning jitters, taking large ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
It was really a horrible nightmare, this earning money, getting liquor, smuggling it home, getting drunk, morning jitters, taking large doses of sedatives to make it possible for me to earn more money, and so on ad nauseam.


36.
  ... home group.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.133
Then, too, he misses his home group.


37.
  ... home has suffered more than anything else, ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.127
Since the home has suffered more than anything else, it is well that a man exert himself there.


38.
  ... home, I found Lois cooking as usual, ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.137
Arriving home, I found Lois cooking as usual, while three drunks looked hungrily on from the kitchen door.


39.
  ... home if he doesn't.  BB Into Action, p.82
Certainly he must keep sober, for there will be no home if he doesn't.


40.
  ... home if they promised that I should ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
But my friends usually found me and I would go home if they promised that I should not be scolded.


41.
  ... home in jeopardy, wife ill, children distracted, ...  BB A Vision For You, p.155
It was the usual situation: home in jeopardy, wife ill, children distracted, bills in arrears and standing damaged.


42.
  ... home in turmoil.  BB Into Action, p.82
Selfish and inconsiderate habits have kept the home in turmoil.


43.
  ... home into freedom.  BB A Vision For You, p.160
Many a man, yet dazed from his hospital experience, has stepped over the threshold of that home into freedom.


44.
  ... home is a near-wreck and he cannot ...  BB To Wives, p.110
His friends have slipped away, his home is a near-wreck and he cannot hold a position.


45.
  ... home, is happily married and the father ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.39
His income is good, he has a fine home, is happily married and the father of promising children of college age.


46.
  ... home is likely to be the husband. ...  BB To Wives (Note), p.104
(*) Written in 1939, when there were few women in A.A., this chapter assumes that the alcoholic in the home is likely to be the husband. 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. A further source of help is noted on page 121.


47.
  ... home, leaving behind his first acquaintance, the ...  BB A Vision For You, p.159
He now returned home, leaving behind his first acquaintance, the lawyer and the devil-may-care chap.


48.
  ... home life is ideal and my business ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.180
My home life is ideal and my business is as good as can be expected in these uncertain times.


49.
  ... home more than when he drank.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.118
Her husband may become so wrapped up in A.A. and his new friends that he is inconsiderately away from home more than when he drank.


50.
  ... home, never having it in the house, ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.31
Here are some of the methods we have tried: Drinking beer only, limiting the number of drinks, never drinking alone, never drinking in the morning, drinking only at home, never having it in the house, never drinking during business hours, drinking only at parties, switching from scotch to brandy, drinking only natural wines, agreeing to resign if ever drunk on the job, taking a trip, not taking a trip, swearing off forever (with and without a solemn oath), taking more physical exercise, reading inspirational books, going to health farms and sanitariums, accepting voluntary commitment to asylums -- we could increase the list ad infinitum.


51.
  ... home of every problem drinker will be ...  BB To Wives, p.115
Then that terrible tension which grips the home of every problem drinker will be lessened.


52.
  ... home, often with fine results.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.119
He persistently tries all of A.A.'s Twelve Steps in his home, often with fine results.


53.
  ... home, or burn a mattress.  BB Working With Others, p.97
A drunk may smash the furniture in your home, or burn a mattress.


54.
  ... home or in the world outside we ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.124
Service, gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in the world outside we are partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.


55.
  ... home -- our husbands thought we were so ...  BB To Wives, p.106
The bill collectors, the sheriffs, the angry taxi drivers, the policemen, the bums, the pals, and even the ladies they sometimes brought home -- our husbands thought we were so inhospitable.


56.
  ... home plastered, carrying a big potted plant ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
It was the day before Mother's Day and I had come home plastered, carrying a big potted plant which I set down on the table and forthwith went upstairs and passed out.


57.
  ... home ruined.  BB Into Action, p.82
He is like the farmer who came up out of his cyclone cellar to find his home ruined.


58.
  ... home situation, you can undoubtedly make helpful ...  BB To Employers, p.145
If he speaks of his home situation, you can undoubtedly make helpful suggestions.


59.
  ... home that evening, which in turn would ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
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.


60.
  ... home to father and mother.  BB To Wives, p.106
Perhaps at this point we got a divorce and took the children home to father and mother.


61.
  ... home to the work.  BB A Vision For You, p.160
This couple has since become so fascinated that they have dedicated their home to the work.


62.
  ... home to thousands like him.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.43
We hope it strikes home to thousands like him.


63.
  ... home town who managed to get me ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.175
Finally my father had to send a doctor out from my home town who managed to get me back there in some way, and I was in bed about two months before I could venture out of the house.


64.
  ... home upon our alcoholic readers as it ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.39
This is a point we wish to emphasize and re-emphasize, to smash home upon our alcoholic readers as it has been revealed to us out of bitter experience.


65.
  ... home we find a place where we ...  BB Into Action, p.75
Returning home we find a place where we can be quiet for an hour, carefully reviewing what we have done.


66.
  ... home we were smothered with love or ...  12&12 Step Four, p.47
We had to drink because at home we were smothered with love or got none at all.


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