It takes time. Keep working at it. As you said yourself, the important thing is that when the emergencies cropped up, you had the cash to pay for them rather than going in to debt ... That's exactly what an emergency fund is for! If you can squeeze anything out of your budget, you may think about upping your EF contributions.
When my DH and I got married, we had a teensy tiny EF (maybe we should have called it a "minor setbacks fund" since we probably wouldn't have been able to handle a truly major emergency), but 14+ years later we now feel prepared to handle just about anything life throws at us.
You can do it to!
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