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My employer -- unreasonable, unjust, overbearing; threatens
to fire me for drinking and
padding my expense account -- self esteem (fear); security.
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Also of importance for
most alcoholics are the questions they must ask about their behavior respecting financial and
emotional security.
5.
But all alcoholics who have drunk themselves out of jobs, family, and friends will need to cross-examine themselves ruthlessly
to determine how their own
personality defects
have thus demolished their
security.
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After we come into A.A., if we go on growing, our attitudes and
actions toward security -- emotional security and financial security -- commence to change profoundly.
10.
Our desires for sex, for material and emotional
security, and for an important place in society often tyrannize us.
11.
So these desires -- for the sex relation, for material and emotional
security, and for companionship -- are perfectly necessary and
right, and surely God-given.
12.
If we lie or cheat, we deprive others not only of
their worldly goods, but of
their emotional security
and peace of mind.
13.
Poverty will disappear, and there will be
such abundance that everybody can have all the security and personal satisfactions he desires.
14.
Using his best judgment of what has been right and what has been wrong, he
might make a rough survey of his conduct with respect to his primary instincts for sex, security, and society.
15.
When the satisfaction of our instincts for sex, security, and society becomes the sole object of our lives, then pride steps in to justify our excesses.
16.
Our desires for emotional security and wealth, for personal prestige and power, for romance, and for family satisfactions -- all these have to be tempered and redirected.
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In such a case, this imperious urge can destroy his chances for material and emotional
security as well as his standing in the community.
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After we come into A.A., if we go on growing, our attitudes and
actions toward security -- emotional security and financial security -- commence to change profoundly.
20.
After we come into A.A., if we go on growing, our attitudes and
actions toward security -- emotional security and financial security -- commence to change profoundly.
21.
My wife -- misunderstands and nags;
likes Brown; wants the house put in her name -- pride; personal sex relations; security (fear).
22.
Our demand for emotional
security, for our own way, had constantly thrown us into unworkable
relations with other people.
23.
Was it our self-esteem, our
security, our ambitions,
our personal, or sex relations, which had been interfered with?
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For thousands of years we
have been demanding more
than our share of security, prestige, and romance.
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Another may develop such an obsession for financial security that he wants to do nothing but hoard money.
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