180 days 
does it get easier?
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It might be different for everyone, but for me it gets better and better. You may want to check out 'the alcohol experience' by Anne grace, which deals with reprogramming your subconscious mind t align with what you want. I liked it.
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Yes.
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It will continue to get better as you trudge the road to a happy destiny one day at a time and you will be amazed before you are halfway through
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I found at two years sober I was recovered but because recovering is a process it always gets better each and every day is a little better or a little difficult but it’s easier when you keep persevering on the same direction as you grow into the person that you’re working on becoming working is the key
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Staying on the path of recovery basically means practicing the principles that are the twelve steps . Knowledge is not the answer this is a spiritual journey and the profound change of character occurs with the spiritual experience it’s that easy or difficult but it’s okay cause it’s one day at a time sometimes one moment at a time but staying grounded with your higher power will make you stronger
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What are you doing to make it easier? Are you taking any action or just not drinking? If no action, get into a program and make some sober friends and do sober activities.
Don't trip on the "higher power" stuff that people blather on incessantly about like a bunch of lemmings. You have plenty of time to confuse yourself with that down the road.
For now, just get in with sober people and do sober stuff. It makes all the difference.
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That's amazing!!
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What is your definition of easier? In my recovery, it got easier when I stopped making things more difficult for myself 
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For me it gets different not easier. I always have struggles but they are different than they used to be.
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I think what gets easier is your perception on what is difficult and what is easy. Acceptance was the key to me. When I was out there, I accepted misery, being broke all the time, people walking out of my life, constantly being in trouble with the law and anxiety/depression. In sobriety, I accept that everyday isn’t going to be easy, but it’s better and I have gratitude and hope now (two things I couldn’t even comprehend out there and not even at 6 mos). I have had some downright shitty times in sobriety but it’s always better than my good days in active addiction. The emotional part is the hardest point of this journey in my experience. Gratitude lists really helped me and I called a lot of my brothers and sisters in recovery and simply asked them how they were doing and then I shut up and listened. Just some suggestions, but don’t be so hard on yourself, this stuff doesn’t come overnight, it takes time and we aren’t used to that. 
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Thank you 
For me it did. I had to work on the issues that made me drink and find a group that I could relate too and fellowship with. They have made my recovery journey so much better.
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I had many reasons in my mind that I needed to get sober for: marriage, kids, ‘good’ job. For 8 months I did the bare minimum in working my path of recovery. I was also changing the way I perceived things like God and the church. I was too anxious about life to do anything or force myself to work. I went to meetings twice a week. Around that point, 8 months, things started to shift. I decided if I wasn’t going to work that day I would go to a meeting or play disc golf with my oldest. That day That is also the time I quit my ‘good’ job before they fired me. About a month later I started a new less stressful job. Before long I was back to old habits of isolation and missing work. I made a year still struggling. My wife left a week later. 3 weeks after that she told me she didn’t want to reconcile. My AA family surrounded me, people I barely knew, by my own choice, after a year in meetings. I lost everything I was fighting to keep but the love of my children. My mind started to open, I began to see how clouded my mind was about my marriage and old job. The changes in my self came slowly after that but were noticeable. I learned that fear was a lier and I didn’t have to believe it anymore. I know this is a lot to read. Now I am 19 months sober by the skin of my teeth. I feel better mentally and physically then I have in almost 2 decades. Everyone’s journey is different, everyone’s time frame is different. I chose the church the first time and AA this time both speak of leaning on a Higher Power(to me God). This time around I have learned that there is no one right way to do this, as long as, it keeps you sober. One step in front of the other, when that gets hard let your strength/faith and support system carry drag/carry you along. Only one day at a time, is the best over used statement that has ever existed.
It gets easier if you have a program in place that covers all the bases.
Everyone seems to be looking for alternatives these days. Personally, I think it's so they don't have to move beyond the keyboard on their phone.
Alcoholics Anonymous is a great program that worked for me.
Coming up on 9 years and I still go to meetings twice a week.
I once had 180 days and it does get easier
Yes.