Thanks again everyone! Yes, Dee you are absolutely correct. I almost always enjoy doing sober things once I actually go and do them. I have made a number of things into drinking things over the years which can also be sober things. These include attending live sports events, going to concerts and performing as a semi-pro musician (on and off). I actually enjoy doing each much more when I am sober. Much more. But I made them into some of my biggest drinking occasions over the years. Recently I realised that, among the groups I do these things with, I was really the last one drinking heavily. I hadn't noticed before. In fact, a lot of those friends and associates barely drink now, if at all. And there was me thinking that it was inevitable I would drink on those occasions because ' everyone else would be'. And they weren't! How powerfully drinking skews our vision of what is around us.....
Thanks again for all the support. Day 12 and feeling a bit better.