June 11       Family Obligations ....a spiritual life which does not include...family obligations may not be so perfact after all. Alcoholics Anonymous,p.12

I can be doing great in the program--Applying it at meetings ,at work,and in service activities--and find that things have gone to pieces at home.I expect my love ones to understand, but they cannot. I expect them to see and value my progress , but they don't-- unless I show them. Do I neglect their needs and desires for my attention and concern? When I'm around them,am I irritable or boring?Are my 'amends' a mumbled "Sorry," or do they take the form of patience and tolerance? Do I preach to them, trying to reform or "fix" them? Have I ever really cleaned house with them? "The spititual life is not a theory. We have to live it. (Alcoholics Anonymous,p.83)