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

falters
fame
familiar
FAMILIES   occurs   25 times 17 in BB  •  8 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
See also...   family
famous
fanatical
fanatics

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1.
  ... families.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxv
This has become the basis of a rapidly growing fellowship of these men and their families.


2.
  ... families.  BB Bill's Story, p.15
In one western city and its environs there are one thousand of us and our families.


3.
  ... families.  BB To Wives, p.106
We finally sought employment ourselves as destitution faced us and our families.


4.
  ... families.  BB To Wives, p.119
You have been starving for his companionship, yet he spends long hours helping other men and their families.


5.
  ... families.  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.180
The inquiring voices are not all alcoholics or their families.


6.
  ... families and communities.  BB Bill's Story, p.15
I have seen men come out of asylums and resume a vital place in the lives of their families and communities.


7.
  ... families and friends sense that these drinkers ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.23
In a vague way their families and friends sense that these drinkers are abnormal, but everybody hopefully awaits the day when the sufferer will rouse himself from his lethargy and assert his power of will.


8.
  ... families broken apart by misunderstanding, tensions, or ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.114
We have sometimes seen families broken apart by misunderstanding, tensions, or actual infidelity, who are reunited by the A.A. way of life.


9.
  ... families, but the man who is getting ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.127
We know there are difficult wives and families, but the man who is getting over alcoholism must remember he did much to make them so.


10.
  ... families didn't suffer, because we always paid ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.79
Our families didn't suffer, because we always paid the bills and seldom drank at home.


11.
  ... families drive long distances to be present.  BB A Vision For You, p.161
From surrounding towns, families drive long distances to be present.


12.
  ... families have adopted this way of life.  BB A Vision For You, p.153
Suppose now that through you several families have adopted this way of life.


13.
  ... families have not returned at all.  BB Working With Others, p.100
We have seen men get well whose families have not returned at all.


14.
  ... families hit the Foundation(*) letterbox in New ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.162
He explains that when Jack Alexander's Saturday Evening Post piece broke in 1941, thousands of frantic letters from distraught alcoholics and their families hit the Foundation(*) letterbox in New York.


15.
  ... families, how could they be so blind ...  BB To Wives, p.107
And even if they did not love their families, how could they be so blind about themselves?


16.
  ... families may arrange for interviews or hospitalization.  BB Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A., p.573
In large cities, groups often maintain local offices where alcoholics or their families may arrange for interviews or hospitalization.


17.
  ... families of Alcoholics Anonymous keep few skeletons ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.125
We families of Alcoholics Anonymous keep few skeletons in the closet.


18.
  ... families realize, as they start their journey, ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.122
Let families realize, as they start their journey, that all will not be fair weather.


19.
  ... families reassembled, to see the alcoholic outcast ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.110
To watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled, to see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community in full citizenship, and above all to watch these people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives -- these things are the substance of what we receive as we carry A.A.'s message to the next alcoholic.


20.
  ... families set their feet in the path ...  BB Bill's Story, p.15
I have seen hundreds of families set their feet in the path that really goes somewhere; have seen the most impossible domestic situations righted; feuds and bitterness of all sorts wiped out.


21.
  ... families still struggling with their problem.  BB The Family Afterward, p.124
This painful past may be of infinite value to other families still struggling with their problem.


22.
  ... families that we are really going to ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.83
The moment we tell our families that we are really going to try the program, the process has begun.


23.
  ... families, the alcoholic who means well and ...  12&12 Step Two, p.32
To clergymen, doctors, friends, and families, the alcoholic who means well and tries hard is a heartbreaking riddle.


24.
  ... families, their jobs, and even two cars ...  12&12 Step One, p.23
Alcoholics who still had their health, their families, their jobs, and even two cars in the garage, began to recognize their alcoholism.


25.
  ... families who have lived with a drinker.  BB The Family Afterward, p.135
Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.


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