Category: Sex Addiction

Reconciling with Children Once in Sex Addiction Recovery

Charlie in deep thought about Families and Addiction and Middle-Aged Suicide No matter what we have been through, most of us tend to want the very best for our kids! Either we work harder to give them what we didn’t have, or we commit to providing the great experience we did have. Whatever the situation, when we realize our kids have been harmed—especially by us—it sends [...]
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Reconciling with a Spouse in Recovery from Sexual Addiction

Couple Reconciling After Spouse In Recovery From Sexual Addiction When you learn an art, a leisure pursuit, or even a subject, there is a rich language that accompanies that new venture. For example, if you delve into the world of art, you start with words like “hue,” “balance,” and “composition.” You then evolve into an ever more sophisticated and meaningful dialogue with rich words [...]
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Co-Occurring Sexual Addiction & Eating Disorders

Woman sitting next to her car If you found me after a car wreck with a horribly broken leg, and I wasn’t breathing, the triage options would be hard but straightforward—you would see if you could get me breathing again (hopefully)! When people are struggling with psychological and physical concerns, we always have to consider triaging. The question becomes, “What is [...]
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How Our Social Technology Promotes Lonely Sex and Addiction

Social Media Addiction Recently, my wife and I went out for a nice dinner together—it was there that our hearts sank! Across the room, the familiar, awkward, flirtatious and misconnected movements of a “first date couple” proceeded. As a therapist, the sinking moment for my heart came as I said to my wife, “Look, they are both on [...]
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Women Who Struggle with Intimacy & Sexual Addiction

Woman struggling with pain and a road to addiction Have you ever had two ends of a cord or necklace that have wound together in what seems an impossible unison? It seems impossible to see where one or the other starts, and even more difficult to attempt to tease them apart. You can spend hours finessing and straining only to end up with ends [...]
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