DG congratulations on your upcoming milestones! Your bf sounds like an overgrown puppy! I hope he's cute....
My sponsor's pressing me a bit to work on my 4th step -- when my mother died, I wrote a couple of entries on her & some family stuff, and haven't done much since. I guess I don't have any excuse any more -- but it seems masochistic to me, even thinking about it is painful. Then again, I kind of get that it's ridiculous for me to go around so afraid of my own past that I won't even think about it. Facing myself sucks.