My AH would always say it couldn't happen again too. This was while he felt sick and weak after coming off a bender. Then he would re-commit to his counselling program, have a couple of sessions with the counsellor. As soon as he started feeling better again, after not drinking for a week or two, he was always back at it. And it always started small, until he was in the throes of another binge. Suddenly, he didn't need a counsellor, he didn't have a drinking problem, and I was a control freak. LAther, rinse, repeat. When an A is serious about getting help, he doesn't care how uncomfortable it makes him--he just does it.