Excellent work!! You and I quit drinking at just about the same time, so there is a lot that I can relate to in your stories. One thing that I have thought a lot about lately is that it is amazing to look back at when I first embarked upon sobriety and would hear stories of other peoples’ successes and thought I would never be in a place where I had climbed above the anxiety and the messes that were results of poor choices made during the years I drank. I feel like I have climbed a mountain and come out on the other side, with the problems I had spent years building behind me now. Not that I don’t have problems- just that the old ones have been dealt with and I have a system now for dealing with new issues as they arise. Hats off to you!