Originally Posted by ewo

Well, I think this time I'm not going to make up excuses to friends and family. That was really hard for me. I ended up just avoiding everyone in order to not have to explain to everyone all the time why I wasn't drinking. And in return, I ended up feeling like an outcast. It would be so much easier if everyone around me just accepted the fact that I no longer want to drink. But that's usually not good enough. I would get hounded about it, "why aren't you drinking? You're boring! Let me buy you a drink! No? How about a shot?" I'm sure many of you have been in that situation before!! Some people just don't understand why anyone would NOT want to have a drink. It got tiresome having to explain or come up with excuses - even if my excuse was "I'm not drinking because I drink too much when I do and it's effecting my health."