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How to socialize and meet new friends when you don't drink?

  • 14-08-2010 10:28pm
    #1
    artofvegas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭


    How to socialize and meet new friends when you don't drink?,
    just quit drinking a few months ago, for good, and i have realized that many people i used to hang out, won't go out anymore cuz they can't meet up for a coffe or a walk in the park, it has to be strictly pub/bar drinking...
    I am not saying that i will join AA, but you guys must know better about this,
    I am not irish, been here for a year, most of my friends are foreigner and sadly they are oftenly going back to their countruies...so I am in constant need of meeting new friends...
    hope you can give me a broader point of view of this reality...
    all the best


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  • #2
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Forum for non drinkers: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1015


  • #3
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    The 'Funky Seomra' is an alcohol + drug free night club that is held usually in the RDS once a month - though its held in different locations. Google it and you can read all about it. I've been and was a bit skeptical at first but there's a really good atmosphere...not everyone's cup of tea... since thats mainly what they serve:) but I'm thrilled that there is now something like this in Ireland!


  • #4
    kjl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭kjl


    I don't drink and I still go out to the pub and to clubs and have a great time. The trick is to just go with the flow, if people are dancing, have a dance. If people are having a laugh, the join in on the fun. I know it's a bit boring at the start but after about a year you find you don't need alcohol to have a good time.

    The non drinkers forum on boards is a bit quite imho.


  • #5
    thesituation51
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33 ✭thesituation51


    go to a bar.....but don't drink alcohol....i do it all the time!


  • #6
    vicecreamsundae
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭vicecreamsundae


    i didn't drink for years and years when my friends did, but i still loved going out to bars and clubs for fun and dancing. in addition you could take up some new activities to meet people who'd be more willing to do non-drinking based things.
    take up a sport or class, join a book club or start volunteering for a cause you care about.


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    When you are off the drink.... as I have been for some time now as one of my GFs is having a baby and I gave up with her as solidarity.... you find there is a whole non drink related world out there going on every night.

    The trick is to forget about drinking and socialising. Think instead about what interests you and dive into that, or find something new. Whether it is hill walking, music, learning a new language, or even gardening, there are groups, societies and websites chock full of people doing the same thing.

    So in short stop looking outwards right now and look inwards... find out what it is YOU are into and want to do, then focus on doing that... and meeting new people will just fall into place as you do it.


  • #8
    LegacyUser
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    Hi op, having the same problem, I usually just head to pubs or clubs and not drink, after a while you begin to lose your inhibitions as well because everyone else is too sloshed to care, in a way it becomes slightly liberating not to need it...


  • #9
    kjl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭kjl


    bvcbc wrote: »
    Hi op, having the same problem, I usually just head to pubs or clubs and not drink, after a while you begin to lose your inhibitions as well because everyone else is too sloshed to care, in a way it becomes slightly liberating not to need it...

    yeah!!! us non drinkers rock :P


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