People told me this in the beginning, but I didnt get it like I do now. Maybe it will help someone else:
The people around you are not preoccupied with alcohol like you are when you first quit. You have built your LIFE around it.
Like a bad obsessive relationship, you notice every little ripple about it. But other people do NOT. Theyre not watching you, or alcohol, theyre watching their own lives. When you, over time, stop making alcohol the cornerstone of your life, this will become clearer to you.
Don't drink and see. Eventually its power shrinks. Eventually it is like a mosquito that comes by once in awhile and tries to annoy you till you move away or shoo it away. Then, its right back to YOUR life. It will happen!!