Funny you mention confining, freshstart.
By the end of my drinking career my world had become so very small. If I wasn't at work, I was sitting in the corner of my couch drinking. My world had basically become one couch cushion. Pathetic! By the way....I got rid of that couch when I quit drinking. Couldn't stand looking at it much less sitting on it!
And justin....we are both learning to live again. So cool we share the same quit date!