One of the tenets of RR is the belief in self, that you can quit drinking if you choose to, that you are sufficient to the task. To believe otherwise is to put a condition on your success, to think that you might fail if you don't do something or other. This is viewed as your AV looking for an out - AHA! You didn't go to your meeting today, no wonder you had a relapse.
So, keep your face to face contact, and do not sever your friendships or anything of the sort. To think that a failure to do that in order to 'follow AVRT' would cause you to fail in your sobriety, to me, is just more AV. As Soberlicious said, involve yourself or not with the recovery group movement, you have the power to get and stay sober in either case.
You can do this, NotInControl. I believe in you, it is up to you to believe in yourself.