Originally Posted by
ABCCuddly 
I need to just grow up and stop whining about losing something and use the opportunity to gain something else instead.
Sobriety is not a punishment. If you think it is, if you think you are being deprived of the joys of drinking, you are going to have a difficult time committing to sobriety. But that fear of not drinking is just your addiction's fear. As for never being able to enjoy the taste of a good stout...I imagine your "drinking for the taste of it" is long gone. You're drinking for the alcohol and I think you know it.