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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.
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Some people are unable to stay sober at all; others will relapse periodically until they really clean house.
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Beginning on the ground
floor there would be a club; in
the second story they would
sober up drunks and hand them currency for their back debts; the third deck would house an educational project -- quite noncontroversial, of course.
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But when I became willing
to clean house and then asked a Higher Power, God as I understood Him, to give me release, my obsession to drink vanished.
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About two weeks later, Ed stole by night into an A.A. member's house and, unknown to the family, went to bed.
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Many mornings I have gone to classes, and even though fully prepared, would turn and walk back to the fraternity house because of my jitters, not daring to enter the classroom for fear of making a scene should I be called on for
recitation.
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... house for
the Al-Anon Family Groups, composed ...
BB
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A., p.573
This is a world clearing
house for the Al-Anon Family Groups, composed largely of the wives, husbands and friends of A.A. members.
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But the head of the house has spent years in pulling down the structures of business,
romance, friendship, health -- these things are now ruined or damaged.
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Impressed by those who visited him at the hospital,
he capitulated entirely when, later, in an upper room of this house, he heard the story of some man whose experience closely tallied with his own.
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Until we actually sit down and talk aloud about what we have so
long hidden, our willingness to clean house is still largely theoretical.
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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.
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My wife -- misunderstands and nags;
likes Brown; wants the house put in her name -- pride; personal sex relations; security (fear).
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The fact was we really hadn't
cleaned house so that the grace of God could enter us and expel the obsession.
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They can hardly fail to approve these simple principles, though the head of the house still fails somewhat in practicing
them.
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If he can afford it, he may have liquor concealed all over his house to be certain no one gets his entire supply away from him to throw down the wastepipe.
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With a certain satisfaction I reflected there was enough
gin concealed about the
house to carry me through that night and the next day.
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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 house was taken over by the mortgage holder, my mother-in-law died, my wife and father-in-law became ill.
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There my drinking became
so much worse that the boys in the fraternity house where I lived felt forced to send for my father, who made a long journey in the vain endeavor to get me straightened around.
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Now, this house will hardly accommodate its weekly visitors, for they number sixty or eighty as a rule.
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So we clean house with the family, asking each morning in meditation that our Creator show us the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness
and love.
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