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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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1.
  ... situation.  BB How It Works, p.69
God alone can judge our sex situation.


2.
  ... situation.  BB Into Action, p.82
No outsider can appraise such an intimate situation.


3.
  ... situation.  BB To Employers, p.146
Being on a radically different basis of life, he will never take advantage of the situation.


4.
  ... situation.  BB A Vision For You, p.163
The doctor proved to be able and exceedingly anxious to adopt any workable method of handling the situation.


5.
  ... situation.  12&12 Step One, p.24
Under the lash of alcoholism, we are driven to A.A., and there we discover the fatal nature of our situation.


6.
  ... situation, and there can be no doubt ...  12&12 Step Five, p.60
The benefit of talking to another person is that we can get his direct comment and counsel on our situation, and there can be no doubt in our minds what that advice is.


7.
  ... situation, and there were periods of sobriety ...  BB Bill's Story, p.5
Nevertheless, I still thought I could control the situation, and there were periods of sobriety which renewed my wife's hope.


8.
  ... situation are your own willingness to confide ...  12&12 Step Five, p.61
The real tests of the situation are your own willingness to confide and your full confidence in the one with whom you share your first accurate self-survey.


9.
  ... situation as being exactly the way it ...  BB Acceptance, p.417
When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.


10.
  ... situation as best we could; and the ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.25
We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could; and the other, to accept spiritual help.


11.
  ... situation, by all means do so, for ...  12&12 Step Five, p.61
If this is the situation, by all means do so, for you ought to make a beginning as soon as you can.


12.
  ... situation fairly, can I see where I ...  12&12 Step Four, p.52
Appraising each situation fairly, can I see where I have been at fault?


13.
  ... situation, for sanity, and for the strength ...  BB How It Works, p.70
To sum up about sex: We earnestly pray for the right ideal, for guidance in each questionable situation, for sanity, and for the strength to do the right thing.


14.
  ... situation had not been entirely our fault, ...  BB How It Works, p.67
Though a situation had not been entirely our fault, we tried to disregard the other person involved entirely.


15.
  ... situation has already arrived in practically every ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.24
This tragic situation has already arrived in practically every case long before it is suspected.


16.
  ... situation has long since been adjusted.  BB Into Action, p.79
Of course she did not, and the whole situation has long since been adjusted.


17.
  ... situation, he went on a roaring bender.  BB A Vision For You, p.155
Some time later, and just as he thought he was getting control of his liquor situation, he went on a roaring bender.


18.
  ... situation: home in jeopardy, wife ill, children ...  BB A Vision For You, p.155
It was the usual situation: home in jeopardy, wife ill, children distracted, bills in arrears and standing damaged.


19.
  ... situation hopeless, had hidden in a deserted ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
The patient had made his own diagnosis, and deciding his situation hopeless, had hidden in a deserted barn determined to die.


20.
  ... situation, in which we are highly elated ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.111
Or we may encounter the reverse situation, in which we are highly elated because we seem to have been successful.


21.
  ... situation is aggravated.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.118
And if she had a strong maternal instinct to begin with, the situation is aggravated.


22.
  ... situation is to deny some other alcoholic ...  BB Working With Others, p.96
To spend too much time on any one situation is to deny some other alcoholic an opportunity to live and be happy.


23.
  ... situation is too difficult and no unhappiness ...  BB To Wives, p.104
We want to leave you with the feeling that no situation is too difficult and no unhappiness too great to be overcome.


24.
  ... situation like this.  BB To Wives, p.110
You can be quite hopeful of a situation like this.


25.
  ... situation on your hands.  BB To Wives, p.114
You may have the reverse situation on your hands.


26.
  ... situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable ...  BB Acceptance, p.417
When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.


27.
  ... situation then.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.140
But I can tell you there was nothing funny about the situation then.


28.
  ... situation was.  BB To Employers, p.141
I know, in my own particular case, that nothing my company could have done would have stopped me for, so long as I was able to hold my position, I could not possibly realize how serious my situation was.


29.
  ... situation we shall never be able to ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.83
There will be other cases where action ought to be deferred, and still others in which by the very nature of the situation we shall never be able to make direct personal contact at all.


30.
  ... situation, we usually have to do something ...  BB Into Action, p.81
Whatever the situation, we usually have to do something about it.


31.
  ... situation where to make a full revelation ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.86
That will arise in the occasional situation where to make a full revelation would seriously harm the one to whom we are making amends.


32.
  ... situation which might be helped by better ...  BB To Employers, p.137
We think the business fabric is shot through with a situation which might be helped by better understanding all around.


33.
  ... situation without reserve.  BB There Is A Solution, p.18
Highly competent psychiatrists who have dealt with us have found it sometimes impossible to persuade an alcoholic to discuss his situation without reserve.


34.
  ... situation, you can undoubtedly make helpful suggestions.  BB To Employers, p.145
If he speaks of his home situation, you can undoubtedly make helpful suggestions.


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