Share Your Story
Hits: 1Sharing our stories is good therapy. Women do this well; we laugh, we cry, we talk, pace, gesture and pull our hair out. We…
Tag: partners of Sex Addicts
Nurturing A Sex Addict Has Negative Results
Nurturing can also occur when a partner readily accepts and believes their partners flimsy explanations, denials and promises by ignoring their own co…
Part Two Of An Interview with Barbara Steffens, Author of Your Sexually Addicted Spouse
Listen as JoAnn Russell interviews Barbara Steffens, author of 'Your Sexually Addicted Spouse, How Partners Can Cope And Heal' in Part 2 of this four …
An Interview with Barbara Steffens, Author of Your Sexually Addicted Spouse
Barbara Steffens, author of 'Your Sexually Addicted Spouse, How Partners Can Cope And Heal' shares her years of experience as a professional counselor…
Standing By You
So many of you are experiencing such crisis in your lives. I can only hope that each and every one of you know that my wish is not only to give you ho…
Discovery
Hits: 1046Our path to recovery starts with discovery. The ways that each of us find out about our spouse’s Sexual Addiction are as varied as…
Confronting The Sex Addict
Whether you have just discovered your spouse or partner's clandestine sexual behaviors, or you are painfully discovering new or repeated evidence, you…
Do You Or Don’t You?
Hits: 803Are you still having sex with your spouse or partner even though you know that they are a Sex Addict? Do you practice safe…
Book Update And Other Things
Hits: 61If you read the quote below you will understand when I say that writing my book, Married To A Sex Addict, has taken over…
Sex Addicts Are Like Lonesome George
Hits: 199When my husband and I visited the Galapagos Islands last year we visited the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz island. This Research…
How Did You Find Out?
Hits: 194The book is coming along nicely and yesterday I was working on a section about Discovery–how and when we find out that our spouse…
Sometimes I Feel Invisible
Hits: 127Sometimes I think when we are dealing with our spouses or partners Sex Addiction we forget that the addiction is not necessarily the only…
Heaven’s Just A Thought Away
One of the reasons Sex Addicts have such a hard time with recovery is the easy and free access to their mood-altered state...fantasy. Sex Addicts are …
What Do You Need?
Hits: 99What do you need right now from your Sex Addict partner or spouse? For me, the most important piece in our recovery was honest…
Intensity Is The Sex Addict’s High
Hits: 611It’s difficult to understand how someone can become addicted to an activity or behavior such as shopping, eating, gambling or sex. We can understand…
Grieving Your Losses Part 2
Hits: 118Ahhhhhh…ANGER! If you are not familiar with it you better get used to living with your new best friend. Anger is the second stage…