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When sobriety reveals how narrow social life had become

I quit drinking six weeks ago and now I realize all my social activities revolved around bars and I have no idea what sober people do for fun.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Removing a coping mechanism exposes how much of social connection was actually shared avoidance rather than genuine intimacy.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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