one wife’s journey through her husband’s sexual addiction to wholeness and healing
We have a family of foxes living in our backyard. Yep, it’s like Animal Planet over here - rabbits, chipmunks, squirrels, a groundhog, deer, and now a mama fox & 4 kits. It’s cool to watch, no question - but it’s also brought a bit more clarity to the Scriptural idea of “little [...]
Of all the things on this journey that I didn’t expect, it has been the depth of sheer anger and rage I have at a man who has been dead nearly 20 years. I am a natural redhead and have borne jokes through the years about my supposed anger. The truth is that I’m really [...]
In the midst of this trying time in our lives, we attended a meeting last Saturday that was imminently encouraging and infused me with all sorts of hope. And that’s a nice feeling to embrace - it seems like it’s been a while since I have.
Our church is in the forming/planning stages of a Recovery [...]
We’ve been having dinner with friends from our church - or, more specifically, friends who are on staff at our church. Our goal has been to build a relationship, absolutely, but also to give them a safe place to “be themselves” as they struggle with a situation in their family. A beautiful friendship [...]
I went to the Str8s meeting in my area this past weekend. In retrospect, I was incredibly nervous and stressed about it - I think I was afraid it would be like the email list I’m a part of: negative, slightly bitchy, and a time where spouses are bashed.
I could not have been more wrong.
This [...]
I don’t hawk things in my writing - at least, i haven’t so far. And I’m not really starting to now. But I came across a great short film that touched me deeply and made me think that readers here might appreciate it. It’s called “Oversold,” and is a modern-day depiction of [...]
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Divorce happens. It’s a sad fact of life that I wish wasn’t. But it’s been going on for thousands of years and is in no way a “new thing” or an American condition. Jesus recognized that Moses [...]
Sometimes in today’s world, we don’t talk about spiritual warfare as though it’s real. We talk about how much God loves us and how Jesus came to fill in the gap for us, but we don’t talk about an Enemy who is more than real, the author of evil, and who has set his will [...]
Recently, someone on one of my husband’s support-group e-lists wrote about “broken walls” in regard to an addict. I realized, while reading it, that “broken walls” are equivalent to “broken (or missing) boundaries” as well.
Brian A. (the author of the original note) wrote:
A good description of an addict is a “city without walls,” totally defenseless [...]
As a Tolkien-nut (certifiable), I have spent many hours reading, watching, and contemplating the characters that Professor Tolkien wrote in his Lord of the Rings trilogy. If you pressed me on which character was my favourite, I’d say, “Arwen,” because she is graceful, beautiful, and holds the image of romance for me. Her story (found [...]
