((ML)) My parents' social life revolves around heavy drinking, and drinking is one of the few things we've enjoyed doing together. Taking drinking out of the equation felt uncomfortable at first. Even after I told my father I stopped drinking, he continued to come to my house with bottles of wine, because that is something that we did. It took a series of awkward conversations til they understood I was serious about not drinking, that it wasn't a one-day or one-week occurrence. And now that they realize I am serious, it's a non issue.
It's not easy to turn down drinks when my addictive voice (AV) is acting up, I feel uncomfortable, the people I'm with normalize drinking, and I wonder if "just one" would be ok. What I did was play the tape all the way through to the end to where that first drink inevitably led me.