Hey, Brenda, it took about 15 months of sobriety before i stopped thinking so hard about it. I went to AA for about a year, then stopped going for reasons of my own. No one thing happened. I just came to feel that my post-drinking, new normal was now just my normal. I stopped pouring soft cider and lemonade into wine glasses because it made the drinks "special" and just used plain old glasses. I stopped telling people I didn't drink unless clearly offered an alcoholic beverage, or it was a physician, and I stopped counting days sober on my ipad. I will never take my sobriety for granted, but it feels now as if I have always been this way. Weird, but in a good way.