I come from the land of Wisconsin where we have more bars than grocery stores in 90%+ of our counties, by far the highest proportion in the country. I can sympa

I come from the land of Wisconsin where we have more bars than grocery stores in 90%+ of our counties, by far the highest proportion in the country. I can sympathize. My advice is honestly to just keep drinking with your friends but keep yourself to a couple drinks max. You can still go out with your friends and play darts, but you won’t be useless the next day. Nobody will care. Get a sprite after you’ve hit your limit. Don’t abandon your friends over alcohol unless you really have a problem and are day drinking. If you try this and can’t do it, then you need to reach for nuclear options like moving away from your friends. But don’t reach for that first.