161: What Happens to Friendships When We Stop Drinking
Soberful
Veronica Valli
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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You may have noticed that when you stop drinking your friendships change in this episode Chip and Veronica talk about how and why friendships change and how to navigate those changes.
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| 0:00.0 | I dreamt that you were twisting through seven sons of gold and the gypsy was insisting |
| 0:10.1 | that his story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning that you might be a treasure I could touch but never hold. |
| 0:27.6 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Soberful podcast. |
| 0:31.3 | I am Veronica Valley. |
| 0:33.2 | And I am a less hesitant Chip Summers, yes. |
| 0:36.2 | Oh, God. |
| 0:36.8 | We've only been doing this four years. |
| 0:38.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.6 | Close to four years. |
| 0:41.2 | Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:42.7 | We're going to be talking today about, this is a suggestion from someone in, I think, |
| 0:48.0 | the Facebook group. |
| 0:49.5 | We're going to be talking about how friendships change when we get sober, what happens to our friendships when we |
| 0:57.2 | stop drinking? Because it can't have escaped you that definitely drinking in our |
| 1:03.3 | friendships and our family relationships, it can have a big ripple effect. So what were you going |
| 1:09.8 | to say? Are you going to say something? I was going to say |
| 1:11.7 | this is a big one for me. I always say, and I was saying it in a support group recently, |
| 1:18.2 | that getting sober is like a bomb going off for everybody around you, your family and your |
| 1:23.6 | friends. We often think it's just us that's going to be affected by it, but everybody |
| 1:29.0 | is affected by it and in a big way. And it's a game changer for a lot of friendships. It |
| 1:36.9 | completely alters things and sometimes for the better, but sometimes it can cause people to be really uncomfortable and |
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