Hi bignasty. Great job on 9 months of sobriety - that is something to be celebrated - in a sober way, of course. I would strongly urge you to read up on kindling. I believe very strongly that repeated periods of sobriety followed by binges cause or can cause very substantial damage. Both cravings and withdrawals are likely to worsen with each round. Kindling is still not particularly well-studied and my personal belief, based upon nothing more than anecdotal evidence and personal experience, is that kindling may even be a worse problem than what is generally known. In any event, I'd spend some time and really study this issue.