Hi Sharp, welcome to SR. are those drinking times really 'fun times'? if they are they should be even more fun w/o the alcohol because you'll be there in the moment instead of seeing it all through an alcohol haze. For me when I quit drinking I no longer found any fun in sitting around where others were drinking because I had much more energy and joy I didn't want to waste another second with people getting stupidly drunk and telling the same ole jokes/stories that they'd told a thousand times before, but that's just me.