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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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Rightly and naturally,
we think well before we choose the person or persons with whom to
take this intimate and confidential step.
2.
Enthusiastic over the spectacular recovery of
a brother alcoholic,
we'd sometimes discuss
those intimate and harrowing aspects of his case meant for his sponsor's ear alone.
3.
Another principle we observe carefully is that
we do not relate intimate experiences of another person unless we are sure he would approve.
4.
How could we know that thousands of these sometimes frightening
people were to make astonishing recoveries
and become our greatest workers and intimate friends?
5.
Strangely enough, wives, parents and intimate friends usually find us even more unapproachable than do the psychiatrist and the doctor.
6.
This is a condition which, in ordinary life, would produce untold grief; there might be scandalous gossip, laughter at the expense of
other people, and a tendency to take advantage of intimate information.
7.
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