Mornin Dancer1, Welcome. I guess it depends on your definition of "sober". What you need to realize is that as a true? alcoholic there are alcoholic behaviors that you need to learn about so you can recognise them and make appropriate changes. How or where you learn these things is not important. Myself, I learned them in AA. To me "sober" is not just the absence of alcohol in my system, it is being happy and content in my own skin. Now as a blatant plug for AA, if you like the people you drink with you'll like us. We're the same people!!
All the best, Ron