Written by Should you stay in a marriage with a sex addict for the children? Are you worried it will harm them to come from a broken home? Is it really better to stay in a bad marriage than to divorce? Here are some thoughts on children and divorce.
I received the following e-mail from a concerned partner. I was appalled as I watched the video and listened to him make an absurd excuse for ‘sex addiction’ behaviors. Unfortunately this is just yet another twist on the old victim blaming game. What do you think? ~ JoAnn Hi JoAnn, First, thank you so much for all you do! Your blogs have been a Godsend. Without you, I wouldn’t have found the right kind of … Continue reading “A Letter to the Editor About Ross Rosenburg”
Another story of a sex addict husband using prostitutes and a wife who wonders if he can change. Hi, I feel at a loss right now and would massively appreciate the support of anyone who has been in my situation. I found out last June that my H had been using prostitutes. I saw the numbers on his phone and then the cash withdrawals from our joint bank account. He broke down and admitted that … Continue reading “Can He Change?”
Think back when you first got married (maybe before kids and mortgages). If someone had asked you the question “what would you do if he cheated on you?”, I bet that 99.9% of us would have answered without hesitation “I’d kill him then leave him”. And we would have answered that way because we never believed for one second that he would actually cheat! We did not marry men that we thought were cheaters.
The news coverage of Ray Rice brutally beating his fiancee unconscious has brought back a flood of memories for me. I was a teen in the 60’s and fought long and hard, alongside other courageous women, to win basic rights. Our right to be treated at least as well as animals does not seem to apply to celebrities who can beat a woman to a pulp and get a mere slap on the hand. In the … Continue reading “Abuse is Abuse is Abuse”