Originally Posted by
Buckley 
I haven't drank in 9 days, ...,but I feel fabulous.
Buckley, as I see in your other post in the Newcomer section, feeling fabulous for a few days has nothing to do with whether or not one can stay sober.
That's the insanity of alcoholism. Feel better, look better, life goes better, happier, so why pick up that first drink again?
That's the whole deal with the 12 Steps. Getting the power required to never have to pick up that first drink again.
The experience from which those 12 Steps were born tells us that we're doomed to keep repeating that cycle of relapse, remorse, solemn oath over and over. That unless we can experience an entire psychic change, there is little hope of recovery.
That's the 12 Step message. Interested?