>>13650587I do not have an answer for you, but I can share a related experience. I broke up with my gf of 10 years in April and when I moved into a place by myself everything was going great initially until I started noticing that I was drinking more and more (in hindsight I recognize it was loneliness driving it). I gave up alcohol in early July. It still hurts and everything, but issues and stuff aren't compounded by being sober, they can be by using alcohol to cope.