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The people in my now sober life still drink all the time
How my boyfriend’s minimal drinking still caused a rift between us.
I have had a successful relationship for about three and a half years now. We’ve had our ups and downs just like any relationship but we’ve always pushed through. Any issue that we came across, we could talk about it and move forward.
Except now I’ve been sober since June of this year and things have shifted. My feelings on alcohol and how I was living my life has changed. I saw how alcohol can change a person and how it can ruin someone’s life. He doesn’t feel the same, alcohol had not gotten a hold on him that felt like he was suffocating. He is the very idea that I held on to for so long, that you could moderate.
When I told my boyfriend that I was quitting alcohol for good, he was skeptical. But I’ve kept it up for days, even months. I even created a blog to talk about sobriety because I wanted to find like minded people who are going through recovery. My desire to find a community that I could relate to was growing stronger. At my home, I was going through an extremely hard change while my partner still drank and there were moments where I felt lonely.
