Originally Posted by Lance40

This is a good post. I'm at 7 months and can tell you that the daily battle does go away and sobriety does feel normal most of the time. However, the alcoholism or addiction doesn't go away and I find that something can happen and I'm triggered in a big way. It's the coping mechanisms and using them immediately when you get triggered that will keep you sober. It's surprisingly easy to indulge a trigger especially when it is pleasurable, such as certain music or dwelling on certain memories that have a pleasurable association to your drinking days. Things can go downhill fast if you aren't prepared and let these things go on too long, sometimes even as short as a few minutes or an hour.