BlueNails

I had to remove a whole group of "friends" from my life, this actually happened several years ago. I feel kind of guilty about that but, I know they would destroy my sobriety. How do I get to feel okay about that?

PurpleKnight

For me I needed to accept that Sobriety was the most important thing in my life, and so those choices had to be made, in the same way people put their families/kids first, Sobriety came into the same category for me in terms of importance!!

I also take a look at what Sobriety has done for my life, how far I've come, everything I have achieved, and when I weigh all of that up, cutting a few people out of my life wasn't a bad thing!!

We gotta do what we gotta do to protect our Sobriety!!

Soberwolf

By knowing you done the right thing

I dropped a lot of people when i got sober i have no qualms dropping bad influences from my life now im sober

Lusher

Hey BlueNails,

What I found when I stopped is that I had to differentiate between my 'friends' and people who were really only my drinking friends. What I slowly discovered as time went on, is that most of my 'friends' were nothing more than drinking buddies. At the end of the day, that's all we really ever did together, so there was no real friendship to speak of.

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I know they would destroy my sobriety.

Better safe then sorry, even with some of the guilt that you might be feeling.

Anna

Yes, you did the right thing and you had no choice in the matter. We need to do hatever it takes to get and to stay sober.