Tuesday, April 8th, 2025
Overcoming Denial
Denying the truth doesn’t change the facts. As recovering sex and porn addicts, we must develop an honest understanding of our addiction—what it is, how it negatively affects us...
Tag Archives: denial
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Friday, March 21st, 2025Standard Issue Denial
Addicts would rather deny a hard truth than face it. The most common form of sex and porn addiction denial, used by almost every married or partnered addict, centers... -
Monday, March 3rd, 2025Blaming Others for Our Problems
At the end of the day, only I am responsible for my success or failure. One long-sober sex addict often jokes, “I didn’t come into sexual recovery to heal... -
Tuesday, February 11th, 2025Recovery Ruins Addiction
Denial is the worst kind of lie because it’s a lie you tell yourself. In Alcoholics Anonymous, they say that nothing is worse than a belly full of booze... -
Sunday, February 2nd, 2025
The Desire for Escape
Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won’t fix anything. As active sex and porn addicts, we compulsively used sexual fantasy and activity as a way to numb... -
Sunday, January 26th, 2025How 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... -
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, 2025
What 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...