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Originally Posted by Klompy
Where does a 25 yo meet new people? The bar obviously, but this doesn't exactly work for my goals. I honestly want to get out of this cycle, and make an entire new group of friends, but I don't know how to do this. My current options are to continue drinking more than I should, but actually have a moderately entertaining social life on the weekends, or Stop drinking, sit at home on 2+2 on the weekends and more or less give the finger to everyone who I currently consider an acquaintance.
TBH the choice is WAY harder than just "put down the drink".
This isn't meant facetiously, but have you ever tried just not drinking so much? I know it seems like a stupidly obvious thing to say, but it helped me to realize I could drink w/out going for broke.
Like, go out with your drinking friends, but don't pregame, drink slowly, have a water every now and then, drink Guinness (this is a new alcohol-cutting trick of mine, b/c it has relatively low alc content), don't do shots, etc.