What are the 6 Best Gifts Sex Addicts can give their Partners? Not diamonds or gold. Not cruises or luxuries. The best presents sex addicts can give their partners are actually gifts for the sex addicts themselves as well as their partners. They are:
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Newsweek: The Sex Addiction Epidemic
Chris Lee’s November 25, 2011 Newsweek article “The Sex Addiction Epidemic“and MSNBC interview describe the destructiveness of sex addiction. It wrecks marriages, destroys careers, and saps self-worth. Yet Americans are being diagnosed as sex addicts in record numbers. Inside an epidemic. His description of the ravages of sex addiction matches my experience as a Certified […]
Partners of Sex Addicts Holiday and Vacation Survival Tips
You are the partner of a sex addict – wife, girlfriend, husband, boyfriend. Your spouse is or is not in a recovery program. Either situation is stressful. You fear relapse. You experience grief and anger. You are trying to put together the pieces of your life. Then the holiday season approaches. Vacation. Time off. Family.
Recovering Sex Addicts Holiday and Vacation Survival Tips
You are a Sex Addict in Recovery. Good for you. You are working a solid recovery program including therapy, 12 Step groups, a sponsor and a supportive community. You are making progress. Sober on your inner circle behaviors. Taking care of yourself and by extension your partner and family. Here comes December. Holidays. Vacation. Family.
Oprah Show: 200 Adult Men Who Were Molested Come Forward
1 out of 6 men are sexually abused as children. Research shows that a large percentage of sexually addicted and other addicted men were sexually abused and/or abused in some other way as children. Addiction becomes a way to cope with the pain of the abuse. Shame, humiliation, fear and misplaced beliefs stop men from talking
Barbara Steffens Interview at www.MarriedToASexAddict.com – Part 4 of 4
This is the final segment of the four part series of interviews that Barbara Steffens, Ph.D, LPCC, co-author of Your Sexually Addicted Spouse: How Partners Can Cope and Heal with Marsha Means, MA, did with JoAnn Russell, RN, MS at www.marriedtoasexaddict.com. In this interview Barbara touches on a variety of relevant issues involved in the […]
Barbara Steffens Interview at www.MarriedToASexAddict.com – Part 3 of 4
This is the third of four interviews Barbara Steffens, Ph.D, LPCC, co-author of Your Sexually Addicted Spouse: How Partners Can Cope and Heal with Marsha Means, MA, did with JoAnn Russell, RN, MS at www.marriedtoasexaddict.com. In this third interview, Barbara addresses issues including the trauma partners experience both on disclosure and living with a sex […]
Barbara Steffens Interview at www.MarriedToASexAddict.com – Part 2 of 4
Here is the second of four interviews Barbara Steffens, Ph.D, LPCC, co-author of Your Sexually Addicted Spouse: How Partners Can Cope and Heal with Marsha Means, MA, did with JoAnn Russell, RN, MS at www.marriedtoasexaddict.com. In this segment, Barbara continues to discuss how partners worlds are shaken when they learn about their spouses sex addiction.
Barbara Steffens Interview at www.MarriedToASexAddict.com – Part 1 of 4
Barbara Steffens, Ph.D, LPCC, who co-authored Your Sexually Addicted Spouse: How Partners Can Cope and Heal with Marsha Means, MA, was interviewed by JoAnn Russell, RN, MS in a four part series at JoAnn’s informative website, www.MarriedToASexAddict.com. Both Barbara and JoAnn have graciously given me permission to offer this series of audio interviews to
www.MarriedToASexAddict.com
At www.marriedtoasexaddict.com, JoAnn Russell, RN, MS offers a safe space where partners and spouses of sex addicts can tell their stories and get support from a community of people with similar experiences who both give and receive support through the sharing of these very personal stories. JoAnn describes the site as providing “Resources and Support