Do your relationships with your friends depend on whether or not you drink? Mine don't. Just speaking for me, but if I don't drink I don't even think my friends notice. Likewise, if they didn't drink, I wouldn't think twice either. We have lots of fun and none of it depends on booze. So I don't know how valuable friendships would be that are based on booze. My DH has friends from AA. The manage to find things to do. Golf, travel, play poker, etc.