Thanks y’all! Your responses have really helped me. I think I just needed to put my thoughts out there for feedback. It’s good for me to acknowledge that this is actually a difficult thing I’m doing — sometimes it’s easy, but other times it really, really isn’t.
I’ve done difficult things before. If I were to sit here and actually list them, getting and staying sober doesn’t seem like such a big deal by comparison. But it’ll be one of my most important personal achievements.
Oh well, I think the hardest part is behind me, as long as I keep moving forward instead of backward.