Day 30 today. Beeme, I hear you. Being sober around drinkers does make them uncomfortable. When you remove alcohol from the picture how much in common do you actually have with a person you known for years. I have a old drinking mate now when alcohol is out of the picture I have nothing to say to him...Its a reality removing alcohol changes you and changes the life around you. I have also told some of my friends that I have given myself until January to dry out. Of course in the beginning nobody thought I could do it (even myself to a degree) now at more than a month they have realised that I am serious. The dynamics at our gatherings have changed as it would.
I just hope that when January ticks over that I don't start again. Until then I feel that I am in safe waters.
Sober is the new black!