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How to rebuild social connections when sobriety changes your relationships

I am in recovery and my old friends still drink heavily and I feel isolated from them but I also do not know how to make new friends at forty-three.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Recovery often requires abandoning social bonds built around shared dysfunction before new healthy connections exist.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Belonging and identity — who belongs here?”

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