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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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to view that page in the literature.1.
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This is a world clearing house for the Al-Anon Family Groups, composed largely of the wives, husbands and friends of A.A. members.
3.
Husbands and wives have sometimes been obliged to
separate for a time until new perspective, new victory over hurt pride could be rewon.
4.
As our husbands began to apply spiritual principles in their lives,
we began to see the desirability of doing so
too.
5.
We had failed to see that though adult in years we were still behaving childishly, trying to turn everybody -- friends, wives, husbands, even the world itself -- into protective
parents.
6.
Our loyalty and the desire
that our husbands hold up their heads and be like other men have begotten all sorts of predicaments.
7.
Another feeling we are very likely to entertain is one of resentment that love and loyalty could not cure our husbands of alcoholism.
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We thought, on the whole, we
were pretty good women, capable of being nicer if our husbands stopped drinking.
12.
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.
13.
We women carry with us a picture of the ideal man, the sort of chap we would like our husbands to be.
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Many a distracted wife has visited this house to find loving and understanding
companionship among women who knew her problem, to hear from the lips of their husbands what had happened to them, to be advised how her own wayward mate might be hospitalized and approached when next he stumbled.
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(*) The fellowship of Al-Anon Family Groups was formed about thirteen years after this chapter was written. Though it is entirely separate from Alcoholics Anonymous, it
uses the general principles of the A.A. program as a guide for husbands, wives, relatives, friends and others close to alcoholics. The foregoing pages (though addressed only to wives) indicate the problems such people may face. Alateen, for teen-aged children of alcoholics, is a part of Al-Anon.
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