E262: Do You Miss Drinking or Do You Miss the Relief?

Sober Friends

Matt J

12 Steps, Spirituality, Personal Journals, Mental Health, Sober, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Addiction, Religion & Spirituality, Alcohol Free, Sober Curious, Alcoholics Anonymous, Dry January, Society & Culture, Sobriety

4.3 • 722 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail "I love to do things that will give me temporary comfort, that will make me very uncomfortable somewhere down the road." A woman with 30+ years of sobriety shared this in Steve's Wednesday meeting, and it hit hard. Because that's exactly what drinking was - temporary relief that created long-term pain. But here's the real question: when you quit drinking, what are you actually missing? In this episode, Matt and Steve dig into what happens when you remove alcohol but don't rep...

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0:00.0	And she says, I love to do things that will give me temporary comfort that will make me very
0:09.8	uncomfortable somewhere down the road, right? You think about that statement, right? I want to do something
0:15.3	that gives me that immediately comfort that I'm looking for. What, you know, and that's what drink used to do, right, for us.
0:23.6	But yet I'll regret or will give me pain somewhere down the road, right?
0:28.6	What is that, right? Is that cheating on your spouse?
0:31.6	Is that doing, you know, spending more money than you should be spending?
0:36.6	And I start to think about, what am I doing?
0:38.5	Why am I doing this?
0:39.8	Why am I taking this action?
0:45.6	Welcome to the Sober Friends podcast.
0:49.6	Curious if you, well, if you're here, you're probably on a recovery journey or you're a little bit curious about it.
0:57.3	I hear a lot of people say that they miss alcohol.
1:00.9	You really miss alcohol or do you miss that thing that alcohol gives you that escape?
1:07.5	Morning, Steve.
1:08.9	What's up?
1:10.5	Good morning, Matt.
1:12.3	All good here, I think.
1:15.3	Yeah.
1:15.9	Waiting on the snowstorm.
1:18.5	Yeah, it's going to be an apocalypse.
1:20.8	Yeah, supposedly.
1:23.4	I think that's a good topic is like, what do we miss when we give up alcohol, right?
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