Thanks to this app,Its been relatively easy to stay sober.
I’m hosting a party in 2 weeks to my friends who I never spent time sobet before. Any tips how I could cope with this new situation?
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Believe in yourself and just say to yourself Im not going to drink. Dont romanticize drinking at your party. You will have more fun hanging with your friends sober.
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If you’re the host, you’re the boss. Make it a no booze party. Let people know you’re trying this sober thing out.
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Thanks for the idea,but actually I want to try being sober when others are drinking,since I know that is a requirement in those parties that I am not hosting.
I already have booked some more friends there who will be playing board games with me and not boozing…
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Make sure you have a good plan for what you’re going to drink - if you’ve got some people coming who aren’t boozing that’s brilliant. You will have a great time with your friends, you don’t need booze to enjoy the company of good people 
The main thing I’ve found being in those situations is that I just can’t stay up as late as I used to, I get tired. Also when people reach a certain stage of drunk it can get a bit boring, hearing the same story for the hundredth time etc. When you’re at someone else’s party you can obviously just leave! If it were me I would probably set a kicking out time in advance… Maybe while some nearby bars are still open so people can have their own after party if they really feel the need to carry on. I guess it kind of depends what type of party it is whether that would work for you.
I get that you want to put yourself in these situations but like @CaptAZ says, your house your rules! There will be many future opportunities to be around people drinking so don’t push yourself too much and don’t make it harder for yourself than it needs to be!
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My best advice would be to say no booze. If your friends are true friends they will respect it. Invite other sober people. And if you decide you want to allow alcohol always have a soda or water in your hand so you can say sorry I’m drinking this. And make sure people know they have to take any left over alcohol home with them
Great advice here already. One thing not mentioned yet is to make sure when your guests leave that they leave with their alcohol. My home is normally where we have parties it’s just a bigger space big backyard for kids etc. makes sense to have it here but we would always be left with tons of alcohol at the end of the night. Before we would just keep it and it was fine but now I have a problem I can’t have it here. For me I do great during the parties it’s the next day or two that cravings start- brain gets triggered and can’t control that so just be aware.