Yep! Mine does the same thing. He feels terrible the next day after he drinks too much - not just feeling bad because of too much alcohol, but because he knows he bothered me. So he takes a day to recover and then the next he feels fine again and thinks that he can "control" it this time, but of course he can't. I think it's just a vicious cycle. The counselor last night said something really interesting. He said that alcoholic's brains don't interpret things correctly. That the reasons they think they drink are not the real reasons - but the actual addiction. Their brain just tells them that it's because they "want to relax". So it's more difficult for an addict and the disease is so complex, because they can't rely on what their brain tells them. They have to against what they think and realize that what they think is not what is real.