From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
Click a book cover icon
to view the Big Book or 12&12 chapter, or Grapevine text1.
... home.
BB
Bill's Story, p.16
2.
... home.
BB
Into Action, p.81
3.
... home.
BB
Into Action, p.82
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
6.
... home.
BB
To Wives, pp.105-106
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
9.
... home.
BB
A Vision For You, p.155
10.
... home.
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
11.
... home.
12&12
Step Eight, p.79
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
18.
... home and
religious training had given us ...
12&12
Step Two, pp.28-29
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
21.
... home at
the disposal of this strangely ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.160
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
24.
... home, did
I use this as a ...
12&12
Step Four, p.51
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
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
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
32.
... home for
a few days.
BB
Working With Others, p.96
33.
... home from
here.
BB
A Vision For You, p.157
34.
... home from
the hospital.
BB
To Wives, p.110
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
37.
... home has
suffered more than anything else, ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.127
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
40.
... home if
they promised that I should ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
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
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
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
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
52.
... home, often
with fine results.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.119
53.
... home, or
burn a mattress.
BB
Working With Others, p.97
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
58.
... home situation,
you can undoubtedly make helpful ...
BB
To Employers, p.145
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
61.
... home to
the work.
BB
A Vision For You, p.160
62.
... home to
thousands like him.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.43
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
The 164 and More™ Book, eBook, and Web Site
are all CONCORDANCES which display passages from the Big Book
Alcoholics Anonymous, the
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions,
and the A.A. Grapevine (A.A. Preamble only).
Sorting and rendering passages in the proprietary format of the
164 and More concordance does not in any way imply
affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
Inc., or the A.A. Grapevine, Inc. Further A.A.W.S. Inc. and the A.A.
Grapevine Inc. have no objection to the use of this material in the
164 and More concordance.
Copyright © 2005-2017, Recovery Press LLC; All Rights Reserved.