"sobriety" in the Big Book

Nevertheless, I still thought I could control the situation, and there were periods of sobriety which renewed my wife’s hope.

Then he fell victim to a belief which practically every alcoholic has —that his long period of sobriety and self-discipline had qualified him to drink as other men.

We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: “Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic.’’ Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever.

We feel a man is unthinking when he says that sobriety is enough.

Ask them to remember, when they are impatient, the blessed fact of his sobriety.

His only chance for sobriety would be some place like the Greenland Ice Cap, and even there an Eskimo might turn up with a bottle of scotch and ruin everything!

Your husband knows he owes you more than sobriety.

The fact is that he should work with other people to maintain his own sobriety.

As soon as his sobriety begins to be taken as a matter of course, the family may look at their strange new dad with apprehension, then with irritation.

During those first days of convalescence, this will do more to insure his sobriety than anything else.

This work is necessary to maintain his sobriety.

He will presently try the old game again, for he isn’t happy about his sobriety.