Category Archives: Step 5: Rebuilding Life & Relationships
Can Trust be Restored after Porn?
We’ve probably all heard sermons and marriage seminars talk about the respect and love passage in Ephesians 5:33, but the quandary is how to live by those words when a husband is involved in the unrespectable behaviors of sexual addiction and, because of them, his wife feels anything but loved? And . . . why…
Warning Sign #1 – Diminishing Accountability
Last week we started a discussion about The Three Warning Signs of Impending Relapse. As addiction counselors, we often hear people say that they had been doing so well and then “all of a sudden” they found themselves back in their old addictive behaviors. In actuality, relapses are rarely instantaneous. There are almost always warning…
“Normies”
When I first met my husband, he often spoke of his disdain for “normies.” In his mind, anyone who wasn’t in recovery from something was a “normy”. He believed that they were “normal” but he, because of his chronic battle with addiction, was not. He didn’t trust normies. He was convinced that they wouldn’t, or…
No Man is an Island
“Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, “It’s my own business.” ― Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art We, as a society, have become an extremely self-focused…
Choosing “I will”
As we’re scurrying around trying to pull things together for our vacation I’m struck by the sheer amount of details that go into planning anything of note. And yet . . . often we try to just “shoot from the hip” when it comes to making positive changes in our lives. In our sexual addiction…
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