You need friends who are okay with you being sober.
I grew up in South Louisiana and drank for thirty years. At LSU it got heavy. When I graduated, my drinking graduated right along with me. My whole social life ran through a bar. I was the fun guy.
My last drink was October 1, 2018. I spent the next few years working on myself. Then one day I looked up and my phone had gone quiet. The guys I used to drink with had stopped calling.
Twenty-five years in sales taught me how to stay in someone’s life. So I took the pitch out of it and did it because I actually gave a damn. I built a system with index cards and my iPhone. I call it The Stack. I did the reps, and I got my friends back.
Get The Stack, free. It’s my $3.65 system for keeping your friends, plus one story a week. Sometimes they’re funny.