I'm so confused - I'm reading the post and the replies that follow, but it's like another language. I don't speak American.
WTF is wrong with you people, abstaining rules? Getting "played".... "stopped cheating", does that mean you we f*cking other women while you had a girlfriend already?
Cause that doesn't deserve kudos, it's like someone pissing on your car every day for a week and then thanking them for the day that they don't.
Drinking, was that an issue for you? Is it all or nothing - was it a problem?
And you stopped going out with friends too? Were they a bad influence - or did you just drop them because a piece of ass told you to?