I'm in my fifth month of sobriety

It's been difficult. Not so much the not drinking, but everything else. Every dime I spend is scrutinized, my habits are all called into question, and I've been going back and fourth between bitterness at myself and blaming everyone else. One of the main parts of AA is coping with the underlying causes of your drinking, which I still haven't been able to do, because some of the habits that I carried out while drinking carried over to other areas in my life.

In all, I'm a nice, kind, caring man (I'd like to believe). I'm a good dad, decent husband, faithful man (I try, anyway). But it's amazing how one area of life can poison all the good you do.