Having had many years of sobriety and 1000s of AA meetings, I STILL went back out for a while. My husband wants me to "guarantee" that it will never happen again. He also wants me to always be honest. Incompatible.
There are no "guarantees" except on "the maintenance of our spiritual condition" (whatever that may mean to each of us); soooo, I am, and will always be, an alcoholic in remission. Someone who does not have the condition will never completely understand that; all I can do, as others have said, is show by actions each day that I am doing what I need to do to stay sober. Sometimes this entails the husband annoyingly saying: "Have you gone to a meeting today?" Easy enough to just do it; I am never sorry when I have.