Welcome to piecing Patience and not pursuing will most likely remain your friend during the reconciliation process. The expectations created by a second chance seem to lead to backsliding. Like you said, you can almost taste it so it's hard not to claim success and go back to old habits. This is something that I struggle with on a daily basis myself. Keep counting the baby steps that move you forward
If you get a chance, do a search on Sage and Slowly. I'm sure there are others with great success, but their past threads have a lot of DB wisdom for piecers.
Patience and not pursuing will most likely remain your friend during the reconciliation process. The expectations created by a second chance seem to lead to backsliding. Like you said, you can almost taste it so it's hard not to claim success and go back to old habits. This is something that I struggle with on a daily basis myself. Keep counting the baby steps that move you forward 