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What I learned after 3 months of sobriety
It’s been three very long months of going sober.
When I first started giving up alcohol, I tried not to count the days. It was so hard not to. I would remember my current number of days every time I woke up. It was something that I had become obsessed with. After a while though, I stopped counting the days and just set reminders for the big milestones. 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 6 months and then a year. Here’s what I learned after 3 months of sobriety.
How the first month felt
After hitting the month milestone, I honestly didn’t feel any different. 30 days didn’t feel like it was long enough to really understand who I was before drinking. It was everything that you would expect a first month to be.
- I did have the worst hangover feeling for about a week when I first quit
- All the sudden free time made me really restless and bored
- The craving for sweets is pretty unreal
It didn’t feel real to me though. I had also done quite a few ‘dry’ January months or ‘sober’ Octobers so it didn’t feel like much of an accomplishment to me. I also noticed that the first month didn’t really seem to be long enough for other people as well. I would tell them I hadn’t drank in a month and it was assumed I would go back to…
