The people who stood beside the effort belong in the moment of relief.

Relief is usually a private event, taken quietly and alone, because by the time it arrives everyone is tired and the news feels anticlimactic. The people who waited with you through the hard stretch rarely get told it is over, or get told late and briefly. They carried a version of it too, without the ability to do anything about it.

When something difficult finally resolves, tell the people who sat through it, and tell them first. Say what their part was. A short message on the day is worth more than a full account a month later.