Sunday, January 26th, 2025
How Denial Sets In
“I wasn’t crying about mothers,” he said rather indignantly. “I was crying because I can’t get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn’t crying.” Denial usually builds slowly...
Tag Archives: denial
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Saturday, January 11th, 2025Approaching Life Differently
If nothing changes, nothing changes. When the road gets difficult, we can embrace the challenge and think about it as a chance to make ourselves and the world a... -
Monday, January 6th, 2025What is Denial?
As addicts, we tell huge and powerful lies – most of all to ourselves. Active sex and porn addicts routinely ignore warning signs of problematic behavior – ruined relationships,... -
Thursday, December 19th, 2024
Rationalization
Rationalization is the process of not perceiving reality, instead bending it to fit one’s desires. Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author William Faulkner once wrote, “Ingenuity was apparently given... -
Tuesday, November 26th, 2024Sex and Porn Addiction and Denial
Delay is the deadliest form of denial. As sex and porn addicts, we rationalize, minimize, and justify our sexual adventures, blaming everyone and everything but ourselves for our actions... -
Friday, November 8th, 2024The Aftermath of Acting Out
As addicts, we’re not in denial. We’re just selective about the reality we accept. After we sexually act out, we attempt to distance ourselves emotionally from what we’ve just... -
Thursday, October 24th, 2024
The Role of Denial
A core issue of active addiction is the avoidance of reality. Science fiction author Douglas Adams once wrote, “There is no point in using the word impossible to describe... -
Wednesday, September 18th, 2024Sex and Porn Addiction and Secrecy
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. As active sex and porn addicts, we organized our entire lives around sexual fantasy and... -
Monday, August 12th, 2024
Willful Ignorance
We’re not in denial. We’re just selective about the reality we accept. For some of us, denial is so deep and so powerful that we somehow manage to stay...