EleanorRigby

(As you can all see by my name and this thread title, i love the beatles...)

anyways, i've found nothing but support from my friends as i tell them i'm on my way to recovery. one said that she would stop using with me for the remainder of the school year. my other friend said that he is taking it upon himself to see that i don't mess up. i'm lucky to have this support. but all of my friends (with the exception of that one) will still be smoking, so it will still be very hard i think.

CarolD

When I drank....my friends were also drinkers.

Now that I quit....my friends are also non drinkers.

I found the new ones in AA.

Sugasnaps

Yeah, that's a hard one.

I found as I changed and grew without alcohol in my life that my desire to be around the people that did the things I didn't want to do anymore dwindled. It didn't happen over night but my old friends started calling me less and my new friends I started calling them more.

Now, the old friends and I still "catch up" but we don't socialize in the same circles and that's okay. I still care about them and keep in touch when it's good for me to do so. But I don't miss the misery or the chaos.

I cherish the good memories of my old friends and let the misery/chaos part go. That's them... not me. I cherish my new friends and look forward to the opportunity to make even more.

Hang in there!