A lot of major life changes can not be predicted nor avoided, my mom died 5 months after I got sober and then 3 mths after that my dad came to stay with me, I obviously couldn't control my mothers death and I felt bad for my dad so I really had no choice. Both those events were very stressful for me and after a couple of months with my dad I was feeling on the verge of drinking but I didn't and knowing that I got through that difficult time w/o drinking strenthened my sobriety immensely. I've always heard you shouldn't enter a new love relationship in the first year and I strongly agree with that because you need to focus on yourself as much as possible and new relationships require a lot of work and if they don't work they can set you back way too far.