Poll for 12 Steps and 12 Traditions of LRAA

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The Temp. Org. Committee has been working on the wording of the 12 and 12 for our Fellowship. The versions below are as close as possible we think to the traditional AA Steps and Traditions.

Please take a look at them and vote 'yes' if you are happy with them and 'no' if you are not.


(Proposal)

THE 12 STEPS OF LOVE AND RELATIONSHIP ADDICTS ANONYMOUS

Step 1. We admitted we were powerless over love and relationships - that our lives had become unmanageable.
Step 2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Step 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God.
Step 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Step 5. Admitted to God to ourselves and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Step 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Step 7. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
Step 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
Step 9. Made direct amends to such people except when to do so would injure them or others.
Step 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Step 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out.
Step 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to love and relationship addicts, and to practice these principles in all areas of our lives.

THE 12 TRADITIONS OF LRAA

The Twelve Traditions
1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon LRAA unity.
2. For our group purpose, there is but one ultimate authority,a loving Higher Power as expressed in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for membership in LRAA is a desire to recover from Love and Relationship addiction.
4. Each group should remain autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or LRAA as a whole.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose - to offer a safe place to recover from love and Relationship addiction and to carry the message of recovery to those who still suffer.
6. An LRAA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the LRAA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7. An LRAA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. Love and Relationship Addicts Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
9. LRAA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. LRAA has no opinion on outside issues; hence the LRAA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the public level.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities

Edited: thank you to those who pointed out spelling mistakes!

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We would like all HGMs to vote on 12 and 12 asap. Please cast your vote. If the majority vote is'yes', the fellowship can contact AA for authorisation to use the steps and traditions on the forum.
Thank you all!
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