Glad you went to a meeting pressme and that you came here to talk about it. Staying sober needs to be your primary goal right now and is really the key to give you any chance at improving your life in other areas. Don't let your addiction use this as an excuse - there will always be stresses or "triggers" in your life, that's unavoidable. Some will be bigger than others, but no matter what the absolute worst possible outcome would be to drink alcohol.
Learning to deal with things on face value is probably the hardest thing do to when getting sober because you will feel all the discomfort/pain very clearly. But it's a necessary part of life and the more you do it the better you will get at it.