Its not a race. It took me a while to get to the line too. The count is just a number. If its positive you are going in the right direction.
JL. You are doing good by not drinking and hurting yourself or your family as you note. That is powerful. I suffer daily too. I think most of us will for a while. We drank for various reasons and those reasons are still around although the alcohol is not. We have to deal with them in some other fashion. We all know alcohol does not work. Still its hard. I know. I know.
I probably have 25 differing shades of grey, red, brown, blonde and black in my beard. Scottish / English ancestry. Good stuff. I am clean shaven these days.
Day 83. Stress is high again this week and I am still pissy.