The response about drinking alone is more about the booze - is spot on. In my sobriety, I try to explain to people that in the past (when I was guzzling 60 ounces a day of vodka alone in my place) all events were planned with alcohol at the center and everything else had to fall in where it could. Booziocentric as I call it. Nine times out of ten my hooch heavy brain would tell me stay put and avoid people.
Now that the hooch is out of my life I see it as just some fringe thing that is out there. I can and do go to bars to hang out with my friends and I am ok with that. For a while anyway. Until the smoke gets to thick and the blabble talk begins. Then I may as well be speaking to a Borg. They also make fun of my $1.75 bartab for the Diet Coke with Lime.
I just wonder if I am doing the right thing for me by doing that. I don't know know if there are any right answers. Maybe it's just whatever is right for us as individuals.
Daddio