Dear Dáithí: I've given up drink and my boyfriend and friends are giving me grief over it

"...I too have continued dry January into this month and am feeling great. My friends are saying the same thing to me but in a very jokey way and thankfully it has stayed jokey for me, but I think the jokes for you are long gone."

Dear Dáithí: "I'm doing things like walking the local greenway, while he stays in bed hungover. We both in our late 20s, I feel it's time to get serious about our lives. He goes for one or two pints most evenings. Weekends, it's a lot more. I feel we have nothing in common anymore."

Dear Dáithí, 

 I tried 'Dry January' there and I feel the benefits if it so much that I'm keeping it going.