1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon CoDA unity.
2. For our Group purpose there is but one ultimate authority: a loving Higher Power as expressed to our group-conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for membership in CoDA is a desire for healthy and loving relationships.
4. Each Group should remain autonomous except in matters affecting other Groups or CoDA as a whole.
5. Each Group has but one primary purpose: to carry its message to other codependents that still suffer.
6. A CoDA Group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the CoDA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary spiritual aim.
7. Every CoDA Group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. Co-Dependents Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
9. CoDA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. CoDA has no opinion on outside issues; hence, the CoDA 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 level of press, radio, and films.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

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            *The Twelve Traditions are reprinted and adapted with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services,
              Inc. Permission to reprint and adapt this material does not mean that AA has reviewed or approved the
              content of this publication, nor that AA agrees with the views expressed herein. AA is a program of recovery
              from alcoholism only - use of the Twelve Traditions in connection with programs and activities which are
              patterned after AA, but which address other problems, does not imply otherwise.

              The 12 Traditions of AA

 1.  Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.
 2.  For our group purpose, there is but one ultimate authority--a loving God as he may express Himself in our group
       conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
  3.  The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.
  4.  Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups of A.A. as a whole.
  5.  Each group has but one primary purpose--to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
   6.  An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest
        problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
   7. Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
   8. Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
   9. A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to           those  they serve.
   10. Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. 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 level of press, radio and films.
   12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.