meeting another alcoholic?

i don’t really tell anyone i have a drinking problem. my therapist knows and that’s who needs to know. in the back of my mind i’ve kind of wanted to know someone whos a bit like me as well so that i could talk about it to them

however, the other night i was hanging out with someone i met recently and near the end of us hanging out they just outright admitted that they’d been drunk most of the time we’d been out, and that they’d been drinking alot on their own lately. they don’t know about my drinking. i just went ‘ohh haha’ not really knowing what to say. i really don’t know them very well. i didn’t really know what to say and it kind of made me think having other friends with drinking problems may not actually help me as much as i initially thought.

has anyone ever had something like this happen to them? or ever befriended another alcoholic? how did it go?