I didn't have to tell my friends...I had to find new ones. I had a strange habit of finding alkies that were worse than me and befriending them...I did this most of my life....I had to change a lot of what I did...I started with my friends....Now people that I cared about and cared about me...Simply told me they were praying I'd get help...How cool is that?
P.S. Even my Ex Wife told me that.