Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
How Do We Best Define Cheating?
Infidelity is the most piercing of betrayals. When we are active in our sex or porn addiction, our definition of infidelity likely does not match our partner’s definition. We...
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Monday, January 20th, 2025Triggers
Our biggest crises can be triggered by the smallest things. Triggers are catalysts that drive our need/desire to act out sexually. Most often, triggers involve some sort of ‘pain... -
Sunday, January 19th, 2025Recognizing the Virtue of Adversity
You must never limit your challenges. Instead, you must challenge your limits. Sometimes recovering addicts are happy just getting by. We’re sober for now, semi-comfortable, paying the bills, and... -
Saturday, January 18th, 2025Sex vs. Love vs. Affection
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex. Sex and porn addicts share certain characteristics. One of these common traits is that we are unable... -
Friday, January 17th, 2025Tolerance and Escalation
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of your addiction. Addicts of all types typically experience an increasing tolerance to the... -
Thursday, January 16th, 2025The Importance of Twelve-Step Groups
Recovering sex and porn addicts must attend only two types of 12-Step meetings: the ones they want to go to, and the ones they don’t want to go to.... -
Wednesday, January 15th, 2025Working Step One: The Unmanageability Inventory
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more consequences and failing to understand that we, not others, are at fault. One way to measure the unmanageability of... -
Tuesday, January 14th, 2025A Basic Understanding of Love Addiction
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if we will sit down quietly, may alight upon us. Healthy, intimate, romantic love is... -
Monday, January 13th, 2025What is a Healthy Boundary?
A healthy boundary shows me where I end and someone else begins. The purpose of healthy boundaries is to facilitate healthy relationships, not to shut relationships down. Healthy boundaries...