Originally Posted by
serious 
thanks. i can be very stubborn when i need to be.
unfortunately it works both for my sobriety, as well as against it...
Sounds like me. Some days I get through just by gritting my teeth and forging onward. The stubborn streak shows then. But it took me forever to get the point that I wanted to get sober because I stubbornly refused to want to quit.
Glad you are back.