From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... resentment.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
2.
... resentment.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
3.
... resentment.
BB p.105,
To Wives
4.
... resentment and
drinking, he had not paid ...
BB p.79,
Into Action
5.
... resentment, and
fear.
BB p.84,
Into Action
6.
... resentment engulfed
the meeting, sweeping every member ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
A great wave of outraged resentment engulfed the meeting, sweeping every member to a
single resolve: "Out he
goes!"
7.
... resentment, financial
insecurity, disgusted friends and employers, ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
It brings misunderstanding, fierce resentment, financial insecurity,
disgusted friends and
employers, warped lives of blameless children, sad wives and parents -- anyone
can increase the list.
8.
Resentment grows.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
Resentment grows.
9.
... resentment in
connection with them.
BB p.68,
How It Works
10.
... resentment is
a deadly hazard to an ...
BB p.117,
To Wives
11.
... resentment is
infinitely grave.
BB p.66,
How It Works
But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance
and growth of a spiritual experience,
this business of resentment is infinitely grave.
12.
Resentment is
the "number one" offender.
BB p.64,
How It Works
13.
... resentment, jealousy,
envy, frustration, and fear.
BB p.145,
To Employers
14.
... resentment leads
only to futility and unhappiness.
BB p.66,
How It Works
15.
... resentment or
jealousy.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
16.
... resentment over
his reduced status, whose judgment, ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
The elder statesman is
the one who sees the wisdom of the group's decision, who holds no resentment over his reduced status, whose judgment, fortified by
considerable experience, is sound, and
who is willing to sit quietly on the sidelines
patiently awaiting developments.
17.
... resentment that
love and loyalty could not ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
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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