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Married to a Sex Addict: Breakdown
This should be the final post in the relapse series. If you want to catch up or review, the previous three posts have been: Married to a Sex Addict: Relapse Married to a Sex Addict: Watching the...
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New Year’s Resolutions
It is never too early or too late to decide to make positive changes in your life. However, the New Year is symbolically a perfect time for beginnings, new commitments, and fresh starts. Take the...
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What is Accountability?
The addiction recovery community often talks about the concept of accountability. Addicts are often advised to find and work with an "accountability partner", and spouses are admonished to hold their...
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Porn vs. Personal Responsibility
In a recent post, I pointed out that all of us have varied responsibilities to the people in our lives. Unfortunately, pornography and related behaviors can prevent us from fulfilling those...
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Accountability in Your Marriage
It's a cliche, but it made it to cliche status because it's true: the foundation of any relationship is trust. In a friendship, a family bond, a work relationship, and especially in a marriage, the...
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Does Your Porn-Addicted Partner Still Love You?
Pornography use does not necessarily mean that your partner no longer loves you, or that he or she no longer finds you attractive. Remember Tiger Woods' wife, the gorgeous blond supermodel? Remember...
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Why Does Your Spouse Use Pornography?
One of the first and hardest things we face as the spouses of sex addicts is the struggle to understand why. Why would he hurt me this way? Why did he turn to porn when I was always there for him?...
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Now What? 9 Things to Do as You Move Forward
As you begin the recovery process together, both partners in the marriage have a lot of work to do. Spouses, these are things you should ask from your recovering partner to demonstrate good faith and...
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Married to a Sex Addict: What Does This Mean for Your Marriage?
If you have just discovered that your spouse suffers from sex addiction, you probably have a lot of questions. "Why did he do this?" "Is there something wrong with me?" "Should I be angry?" "What...
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Secrets, Transparency, and Recovery
In one of his previous posts, Alex commented that you are only as sick as your worst secret. Secrets are your worst enemy in recovery, in trying to stay clean, and in trying to rebuild your...
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