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  • 18-02-2010 1:13pm
    #1
    Elenxor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 485 ✭✭


    Now that you are in recovery..how many of your former drinking buddies have stayed in touch with you?


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  • #2
    [-0-]
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭[-0-]


    This depends, as I have cut some of them out of my life so it wasn't a conscious decision on their part.

    I'm still in contact with the people who have a positive impact on my life (be it a friend or a drinking buddy).

    The people who are unable to accept the fact that I no longer drink are gone from my life, and it was my choice. I still go out and have fun in bars without drinking... if they can't accept that then it's their silly little issue and not mine. :)


  • #3
    colrow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,141 ✭✭✭colrow


    None...................but then I'm also an ace geographic


  • #4
    force majeure
    Registered Users Posts: 387 ✭✭force majeure


    All now long gone and while I miss some off them I must say in the cold light off day I'm better off.


  • #5
    Bassfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 911 ✭✭✭Bassfish


    From the other side of the coin.......I was great buddies with a guy at work who had a drinking problem and the worse the problem the got, the less i wanted to be around him. Then 2 years ago he sorted himself out, went into rehab and has been sober since. We actually get on even better now because i was never someone that would go drinking with him so i wasn't in that circle.


  • #6
    Elenxor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 485 ✭✭Elenxor


    Bassfish wrote: »
    From the other side of the coin.......I was great buddies with a guy at work who had a drinking problem and the worse the problem the got, the less i wanted to be around him. Then 2 years ago he sorted himself out, went into rehab and has been sober since. We actually get on even better now because i was never someone that would go drinking with him so i wasn't in that circle.

    I am delighted that you got your buddie back Bass, as for me, I was very bitter that non of my drinking buddies even bothered to phone me when I was first in recovery...later I figured, if the shoe was on the other foot, I would probably have been the same, I have true friends to-day, and I cherish everyone of them.


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