Hi Mia- I love this but I find myself thinking and what about your friends?? How did that work out? I read the substack below recently and it really sums up my ideas about the state of friendship in my middle years and in our modern American society. I too encouraged my spouse to try life without alcohol- he is alcohol free now. Just the two of us-awesome. Trying to find new friendships that don’t revolve around the social connection of food and wine- not so much. Such a fascinating topic to me. https://open.substack.com/pub/rojospinks/p/the-friendship-problem?r=505il&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Yes maintain and maybe you have answered this in your writings already, as i know you started the retreats, on making new friends midlife sans alcohol.
For the most part, my friends and I all adapted to my choice. There were very few who didn't like it or loved to tell me that they loved "drunk Mia." But nearly all of them accepted it and were very supportive. However, I did just recently write about the worst behavior I dealt with amongst friends, now ex-friends. Happy to report as well, many of our friends (including my husband) have quit drinking alcohol, mostly my husbands male friends! Which is wild to me but makes me so happy for them all.
Hi Mia- I love this but I find myself thinking and what about your friends?? How did that work out? I read the substack below recently and it really sums up my ideas about the state of friendship in my middle years and in our modern American society. I too encouraged my spouse to try life without alcohol- he is alcohol free now. Just the two of us-awesome. Trying to find new friendships that don’t revolve around the social connection of food and wine- not so much. Such a fascinating topic to me. https://open.substack.com/pub/rojospinks/p/the-friendship-problem?r=505il&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
What about my friends specifically? As in did I maintain my friendships? xx, M
Yes maintain and maybe you have answered this in your writings already, as i know you started the retreats, on making new friends midlife sans alcohol.
For the most part, my friends and I all adapted to my choice. There were very few who didn't like it or loved to tell me that they loved "drunk Mia." But nearly all of them accepted it and were very supportive. However, I did just recently write about the worst behavior I dealt with amongst friends, now ex-friends. Happy to report as well, many of our friends (including my husband) have quit drinking alcohol, mostly my husbands male friends! Which is wild to me but makes me so happy for them all.
Yes I did read that one. They sounded awful. I have just been pondering the idea of friendship in general at this midlife stage of my life.