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

witless
witness
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WIVES   occurs   24 times 20 in BB  •  4 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
See also...   wife
wobbled
woes
woke

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1.
  ... wives and children be so unthinking, so ...  BB To Wives, p.107
How could men who loved their wives and children be so unthinking, so callous, so cruel?


2.
  ... wives and children of such men suffer ...  BB To Wives, p.114
The wives and children of such men suffer horribly, but not more than the men themselves.


3.
  ... wives and families, but the man who ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.127
We know there are difficult wives and families, but the man who is getting over alcoholism must remember he did much to make them so.


4.
  ... wives and parents -- anyone can increase the ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.18
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.


5.
  ... wives and relatives, innumerable trips to police ...  BB Working With Others, p.97
It may mean sharing your money and your home, counseling frantic wives and relatives, innumerable trips to police courts, sanitariums, hospitals, jails and asylums.


6.
  ... wives, arranged hospitalization and got sponsorship for ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.168
Then we saw that if a hardworking secretary answered the phone dozens of times a day, listened to twenty wailing wives, arranged hospitalization and got sponsorship for ten newcomers, and was gently diplomatic with the irate drunk who complained about the job she was doing and how she was overpaid, then such a person could surely not be called a professional A.A.


7.
  ... wives found that, like everybody else, we ...  BB To Wives, p.116
We wives found that, like everybody else, we were afflicted with pride, self-pity, vanity and all the things which go to make up the self-centered person; and we were not above selfishness or dishonesty.


8.
  ... wives have had with alcoholics.  BB Into Action, p.82
Passing all understanding is the patience mothers and wives have had with alcoholics.


9.
  ... wives have sometimes been obliged to separate ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.125
Husbands and wives have sometimes been obliged to separate for a time until new perspective, new victory over hurt pride could be rewon.


10.
  ... wives, husbands and friends of A.A. members.  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.


11.
  ... wives, husbands, even the world itself -- into ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.115
We had failed to see that though adult in years we were still behaving childishly, trying to turn everybody -- friends, wives, husbands, even the world itself -- into protective parents.


12.
  ... wives) indicate the problems such people may ...  BB To Wives (Note), p.121
(*) The fellowship of Al-Anon Family Groups was formed about thirteen years after this chapter was written. Though it is entirely separate from Alcoholics Anonymous, it uses the general principles of the A.A. program as a guide for husbands, wives, relatives, friends and others close to alcoholics. The foregoing pages (though addressed only to wives) indicate the problems such people may face. Alateen, for teen-aged children of alcoholics, is a part of Al-Anon.


13.
  ... wives of Alcoholics Anonymous to address the ...  BB To Wives, p.104
We want the wives of Alcoholics Anonymous to address the wives of men who drink too much.


14.
  ... wives of Alcoholics Anonymous, we would like ...  BB To Wives, p.104
As wives of Alcoholics Anonymous, we would like you to feel that we understand as perhaps few can.


15.
  ... wives of his new alcoholic friends.  BB To Wives, p.119
We suggest that you direct some of your thought to the wives of his new alcoholic friends.


16.
  ... wives of men who drink too much.  BB To Wives, p.104
We want the wives of Alcoholics Anonymous to address the wives of men who drink too much.


17.
  ... wives or friends to join us in ...  BB Into Action, p.87
If circumstances warrant, we ask our wives or friends to join us in morning meditation.


18.
  ... wives or our parents which will hurt ...  BB Into Action, p.74
It may be one of our own family, but we cannot disclose anything to our wives or our parents which will hurt them and make them unhappy.


19.
  ... wives, parents and intimate friends usually find ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.18
Strangely enough, wives, parents and intimate friends usually find us even more unapproachable than do the psychiatrist and the doctor.


20.
  ... wives, relatives and friends whose problem has ...  BB To Wives, p.104
Among us are wives, relatives and friends whose problem has been solved, as well as some who have not yet found a happy solution.


21.
  ... wives, relatives, friends and others close to ...  BB To Wives (Note), p.121
(*) The fellowship of Al-Anon Family Groups was formed about thirteen years after this chapter was written. Though it is entirely separate from Alcoholics Anonymous, it uses the general principles of the A.A. program as a guide for husbands, wives, relatives, friends and others close to alcoholics. The foregoing pages (though addressed only to wives) indicate the problems such people may face. Alateen, for teen-aged children of alcoholics, is a part of Al-Anon.


22.
  ... wives, the little children; let the solving ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged this movement.


23.
  ... wives they crowded into our downstairs parlor.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.137
With their wives they crowded into our downstairs parlor.


24.
  ... wives to brew gallons of coffee.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.133
The founder and his friends channel spirituality to newcomers, hire halls, make hospital arrangements, and entreat their wives to brew gallons of coffee.


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