Sonnenschein, I posted in another thread elsewhere about a friend/colleague who has been a lifelong teetotaler. He has come to parties at my home where he has been the only sober person and still remains the life of the party. Alcohol isn't, and has never been a part of his life. It's completely irrelevant to his lifestyle. And he still has a great time and is the life of the party. In his mind there is no association between social gatherings and alcohol, an association I am trying to unlearn myself.
I know others may disagree and I know it may sound contradictory to what I just said, but I always make sure to take some non-alcoholic brew with me to social events where I know there will be drinking. People know that I was a bigtime lush, and I just don't feel like answering the inevitable, "why aren't you drinking?" questions. I just take my Claustahaler (which incidentally is a German non-alcoholic brew), pour it into a glass, and people see me nursing a glass of foamy amber liquid and no one is the wiser. Hopefully, one day people will forget that I was such a lush.
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