one wife’s journey through her husband’s sexual addiction to wholeness and healing
Once again I find myself pondering deep questions and concepts and this seems to be a good place to hash some of this out. So bear with me, if you will.
In a discussion pertaining to pornography use and the shamefulness we see in those who partake and who are addicted, someone suggested that it’s the [...]
The news recently came about that David Duchovny (of “The X-Files” fame) admitted himself to a treatment facility. Ordinarily, this news is met with a bit of “Hmm… what is it this time? Drugs? Alcohol?”-type response from the public. Then it gets hushed. “Ooh. Sex addiction. Wow.”
Duchovny admitted that [...]
I know the title of this post is provocative. There are some who would say that a woman can indeed influence and/or “cause” her husband’s sexual addiction.
In most situations, I am not one of those people.
The media-at-large would have us think that if we’re not 25 with perky breasts, no hips, and a sculpted [...]
As I mentioned in a previous post, God showed me that there were “thorns” in my heart that were symbolic of things that were done or said to me that I had neglected to deal with adequately at a previous time. These things had grown in to symbolic thorns that caused me continual pain [...]
Pornography is officially defined as “obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, esp. those having little or no artistic merit.” The American Heritage Dictionary adds a bit to the definition, stating it is: “Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.”
Even the US Supreme Court has weighed [...]
One night while my husband was IM’g a mentor-friend of his and I was on a different level of the house, reading, he came up and wanted to talk. It was still a time of new habits and newly-opened lines of communication, and so I made myself put the book down and focus on [...]
As I continue to write, you’ll learn bits and pieces of my story and my husband’s story — what writers call ‘backstory’ and fills in details a little more coherently.
But that’s not for now. Now is the chance to tell you how this leg of the journey began and how we know it’s different [...]
