I joined this site when it first occurred to me that I was probably an alcoholic. That was summer of 2011. I finally got sober five years later. I hope it doesn’t take you that long. But, I guess I qualify.
Although now in retrospect I don’t think I was relapsing over those five years, where I probably cumulatively had (liberally) 4-6 months sober; I think of it as periodic drinking lapses. I wasn’t putting in the real work to get to sobriety so I wasn’t relapsing when I went back out.
Semantics? Maybe. Point is, getting sober is hard. I understand. I also understand that it can be done. The longest dry spell I had was a month. Now I’m a few months away from three years, with a totally changed and much more meaningful life. Don’t wait as long as I did!