r/stopdrinking • u/stupre1972 468 days • 1d ago
Sobriety - a cautionary tale
460 odd days ago, I stopped drinking.
460 odd days ago, my wife lost her drinking partner.
Directly or indirectly, so did her parents, my sister, brother in law and a number of friends.
Today, we have had a get together of 10 of us and what would have been a very boozy get together (historically double figure bottles of wine plus various other) has been a very gentle affair where the grand total is 2 bottles of wine and a half dozen bottles of beer.
All of that because I stopped and others followed....
So a word of caution - your (and my) sobriety can have positive effects way beyond your own little world.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the sub, I raise a glass (of hot chocolate in my case) and salute you all - Be you on day 1 or day 1000 - and say once more IWNDWYT
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u/Tough_Got_Going 363 days 1d ago
Love this! I posted a while back that my dear husband's birthday dinner was majority non-drinkers. And this is a table of folks who could tell some drinking tales! (His bestie quit 2 years ago, bestie's wife 6 months, me 1 year (almost!) and my bestie is sober curious. Just my husband and his other buddy drank at all. Sobriety is indeed contagious -especially for the AARP crowd :-)