"No one cares if you don't drink."
I once read this in a book on quitting drinking, and I'm wondering if other folks have had this experience. It hasn't been mine. Maybe I have subconsciously surrounded myself with closet (and not so closet) alcoholics, but I feel like the second I don't drink at a social function, family event, in-law gathering, etc. people are swarming and asking why on Earth I'm not drinking. And I hate it. During my last period of sobriety, I lied and told people I was on a cleanse. Even good-natured people who didn't push it on me wanted to talk about it constantly. The whys. The hows. The how longs. Made me wonder if there's a newfound cultural obsession with alcohol consumption, or just certain people in my life. Maybe a little bit of both :/