Good morning everyone.
Sometimes I feel lost. I am 30 years old and the friends I have are the same friends ten years ago and they all still drink excessive alcohol. I am totally fine getting wasted once a year but they still do that every time we meet up.
I am also getting married soon, while I love my soon to be wife I get this huge feeling of anxiety when it comes towards our wedding. I invited most of my above friends because I don’t have any other friends. I wasted my 20s and thinking those are my friends but in the end I notice they are just drinking buddies. I don’t want to make them sound bad they are friendly people and they work and have degrees but the only connection I have to them is the bottle.
I wish I could just make a small wedding without inviting them and just cut ropes. But I already sent out the invites a year ago and organised most of the stuff for the wedding so I am going through it with them. And again, I don’t hate them. I just probably have like two close friends out of those 15 people and thats it. The rest is alcohol.
I am also in the process of building a house. We will be paying 1300 € to the bank the next 25 years and I designed the credit with my bank that I can pay it off with my salery alone in case my wife doesn’t work. I have about 3200 € a month after taxes and my (soon) wife 2400 € a month after taxes, so it seems possible.
Now the construction company of our house is slower than expected (planned to move in february and its gonna be may) and the wedding is july.
I wish I could take a sleeping pill and wake up next year.
Edit: Thank you to all for the kind answers and it helped me think about it from a different perspective and perhaps take things easier! Thanks
Some people never grow past the “go out to get drunk” phase, some are alcoholics that drink everyday and you just don’t know, some are alcoholics that just can’t stop when they start but they don’t necessarily drink everyday. It’s normal that at some of the people will move on to other things at some point in their life and you’re one of those people, the good news is that you can focus on forming stronger bonds with fewer people and create life long relationships instead of having tens of “friends” that wouldn’t bother helping you if you were in a bad spot.