I feel like no one cares. I hate to sound depressing but I honestly feel that way nowadays.
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I totally understand what you're going through. I was a meth user from the age of 21 to 45 and that's how old I am right now. Now that I'm sober, I don't talk to anybody. Not even the sober people that I used to know. They all have given me so many chances to clean up my act and they just keep seeing me screw up people have told me to go to NA or AA meetings & I've decided that it was not for me. I don't need to go to a meeting to stay sober. I really don't need anything. And quite honestly for me, I worked all 12 steps once and I will never do it again because the sponsor expects way way too much out of me I know that it's his job to push me to continue to move forward in the process, but I need somebody who is going to be understanding of my personal situation. So anyway, I would just say this, if you really truly honestly want to stay sober, do what I did and go to meetings online. I mean they have different cities where they conduct meetings via zoom and you don't even have to leave your house. If you ever feel like you know you really need somebody to talk to you're more than welcome to call me. I'll I can't even talk to my cell phone number. Just let me know.
My story is kinda similar to yours. I’ve been sober for 17 years. I moved from the state where I got sober and where my home group was. And my friends I got sober with. I did have a lot of people challenges in my home group there and it put a damper on how I saw people in recovery to keep it short. In the new state I tried going to meetings for a while but I wasn’t making any friends. A lot of it was that I was listening to my own thoughts which isn’t good. Well I’ve isolated and now I’m stuck. lol. Thing is I’m not around people in the program. I’m dealing with everyday “normal”folks. And most of them don’t care. Sorry about what you’re going through but I would definitely give the program another chance.
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Its not that they don’t “care”, its more of that they don’t understand. People as you know who are normies don’t get the big deal of having to practice abstinence from alcohol or drugs for those who struggle with that addiction too! You’re here so you can at least cyberly be with people who “get” you. 