Dealing with drinking friends
Hi all,
Any of you have the experience of getting sober and still having good friends but those friends are also drinkers? The problem I'm facing lately is all of my friends drink...but that wasn't the basis of our relationship (at least for most of them). Now I try to go out with them and its just not fun anymore. Like for example, I went to a roof top party tonight and everyone was drinking and strangers who did not know me kept encouraging me to taste the "watermelon vodka because it is so good". Story short, I did not drink but in order to not be a debbie downer I just kept fake smiling and laughing at stupid jokes (I'm home now and my jaw hurts from all the fakeness lol). I don't know what to do because I like my friends and they're all pretty supportive of my recovery but I really don't care to go to the bars. Its only been recent that I've been going out with them because the first few months of my sobierty I pretty much stayed in, which that wasn't working either.
Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions?