I starting dating someone who was sober. For the first two years, I never drank around her - only if we were traveling apart. Then I just decided to quit altogether so that she wasn’t cast as the party pooper. It’s been three years since then and the first two were really hard. But in the last year, my addictive attraction has transitioned in to revulsion. I now feel pity for people who drink. I never saw this coming. I drank an unhealthy amount but never considered quitting for “recovery” purposes. I just met this girl and it worked. I quit smoking in 2004 and it took me roughly the same 3 year period for that addiction to subside and turn around to revulsion.