I was not a bar drinker. The gal I got sober with was, she loved to drink vodka and dance all night. I heard in early sobriety that I had to change people, places, and things. She heard the same things I did, but bars was all she had ever known. I got sober in a club house, which was open pretty much all the time. I'd be sitting in there and she'd come in after going to the bar and not drinking and she would be shaking all over, literally. Her hands were jerking. She did finally stop going around the people she used to drink with. For me, in early sobriety, when I did have to be around drinking, I would get an emotional hangover. I had not drank, but it really bothered me. My sobriety is the most precious thing in the world. If I lose my sobriety, I lose everything, and I've worked so hard to be where I am today. Not a relationship, job, friends, social get together, nothing, nothing in this whole wide world is worth losing my sobriety.