It took me ages to get rid of all my friends from the old life, literally a couple of years...i kept going back, telling them i was stopping drinking and drinking coffee whilst they drank normally...then obviously would come the day when i thought i could rink a couple and off we go again for months...oh man what a nitemare!
In the end i had to be ruthless with this problem, i want a new life and not to have one foot in sobriety and one in the oldd drunken behaviour.
It's hard though but worth it! Such an important part to me getting sober this one!