[Freedom1990]

You could have been talking about my mother and me!

I was around a year sober when I said something to my oldest daughter, can't recall exactly what it was, but it hit me like a ton of bricks that I sounded exactly like my mother, and not in a good way.

The rigidity/inflexibility was also the thing that I despised the most in my mother, and it was incredibly painful to realize I had become her, and I was sober!

It was also very freeing because I could move on from then.

I too have had that come up and bite me in the butt when I've become complacent, so don't beat yourself up.

We strive for progress my friend, not perfection. :ghug2