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