Your husband has been a sex addict for some time. Whatever event occurred that made you aware of his addiction, it is only one in a long stream of…
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When you think addiction, you think heroin, barbiturates, cocaine, and cigarettes. You think physical withdrawal, cold turkey, the need often for hospitalization. Your notion of addiction may extend to prescription…
I am not a fan of the co-addiction/codependency model. Our grief, our anxiety, and our fear are perfectly normal responses to the trauma we’ve been through. However, there are some great…
I write this blog as though readers have just found out about their husbands sexual addictions, and as though they’ve never been to a support group. Neither of these may be the case. …
Like you, I had been thrown from my notion of who I was in this world. I’d imagined that I had a solid marriage of seventeen years with a man…
Many wives and partners resent 12-step programs because all the help and comfort is directed toward the addict. He is the one who has caused all manner of harm,…
I watched Johann Hari’s impressive July 2015 Ted Talk, Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong, which I recommend to anyone involved with an addict. The talk is…