Originally Posted by
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Thank you for the responses. How do you handle being offered drinks by those who know you as a person who drinks if you don't tell them about the addiction? It's almost automatic that if I'm at a family member's or friend's house, that we'll have at least a drink together. I can't keep saying "not tonight" forever.
I just say no thanks. The only people who obsess about whether we are drinking or not are ourselves, other people really don't care one way or the other.
Regarding immediate family, I did tell my in laws and my parents that I wasn't drinking at all anymore and none of them questioned me in the least. In fact, you are more likely to get a response like "that's great - sometimes I think I drink to much too".