THE TWELVE STEPS			THE EASY TWELVE STEPS
1. We admitted we powerless over alcohol -- that our lives had become unmanageable.			1. We admitted that we were powerful over everything - that we could perfectly manage our own lives and those of anyone else who could not stop us.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.			2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves did not exist, and that we alone were sent to restore the world to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.			3. Made a decision to turn the wills and lives of our friends and relatives over to the care of the God of our choice, since we understood Him better than they could.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.			4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of everyone we knew, ………….and many people that we did not.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.			5. Admitted to God, (aka, ‘ourselves’) and other untrustworthy human beings, the exact nature of the wrongs of everyone that we did not like or found morally imperfect.
6. were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character,			6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defective characters.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.			7. Humbly (?) asked Him to remove from our lives anyone with shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.			8. Made a list of all persons who may have offended us, and became willing to manipulate them with guilt to get them to pay dearly for harming us.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.			9. Got even with such people wherever possible except when to do so would get them more sympathy and pity for their injuries than we could get.
10. Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.			10. Continued to compare myself favorably with others, and when they were wrong, promptly admitted to them how perfect Al-Anon has made me.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.			11. Sought through bargaining and medication to improve our unconscious contract with God, insisting only that He acknowledge our will for Him and use His power to carry it out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.			12. Having had physical, emotional, and spiritual nightmares as the result of these steps, we tried to blame it on others, and to practice the principles of addiction in a series of affairs.