Hi GI 7
I often say my recovery had two parts - one was stopping drinking and the other was learning to be happy in a sober life I loved.
Its hard to look at the life we led and imagine that a a non drinker - which is why I had to change things. Some of my mates had to go, and a lot of the things I used to do to pass for fun had to go.
Thankfully the longer I stayed sober the more I changed and I realised I wanted different things from life that mos of my hard drinking mates.
It sounds momentous when I say things like change everything but new sober me needed a different kind of life and a different kind of fun and I don;t regret making the change for a minute.
Life, literally, has never been better
I'm not sure how young you are but that voice that says you'll never have fun anymore or meet that special someone without drinking is full of it.
I only wish I'd been secure enough in myself to know that in my 20s.
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