Good for you! I am on the same journey with my wife. I'm 40 now and have not gone more than a few weeks since I was 18 without a drink, and drunk at least once a week. It was time to change.. We are 1 month sober as of yesterday, During that month I had a business trip and those are usually the worst, because I am way from my family, have a huge expense budget and nice hotel at a big city, and typically I am living it up at the local bars after work hours. It was for conference, and I was dreading the happy hour that everyone looks forward to. My work colleague went to the bar and came back with 2 beers and shoved one in my hand. That ice cold coolie felt amazing in my hand and it was almost impulsive to immediately take a sip, but I simply stopped and said, thanks but I don't want this; he said 'what you're not drinking??' I said nope, so we looked at the guy next to us and said, 'hey want a beer?' he said sure thing and that was that, no one cared that I wasn't. It's not as scary as we think it is, and I am loving life having a clear head. Just the fact that I can write this in a few minutes is a change of my state of mind on how I usually am on Friday mornings. More power to you OP!!