Originally Posted by detroiter

I’ve hidden from a lot of them that I’m an alcoholic because I lied numerous times about health problems and medications that kept me from drinking. I don’t know how to tell them that I’m not drinking because I’m an alcoholic, I’m worried they’ll judge me. On the other hand, they might not even believe me because I’ve been such a high functioning alcoholic and done rather well in life. I don’t even know how I’m going to have a relationship with some of them anymore because everything was just all about drinking and partying. I was actually going out to the bars with a lot of them and successfully staying sober, but that was because they weren’t trying to force feed me drinks because they thought I was on meds that I couldn’t drink on. That excuse is out the window now. I guess all that really matters in the end is my sobriety and we’ll see who I lose while staying sober.