one wife’s journey through her husband’s sexual addiction to wholeness and healing
We are settling in to our new location and decorating our apartment. It’s been a solid 15 yrs since I’ve lived in an apartment - there are definitely things I like (not having to do the maintenance ourselves) and things I’m not so crazy about (hearing the dog upstairs run around like a maniac at [...]
One of the blogs in my RSS reader is “Signs of a Struggle,” where Thom relates his challenges with SGA. I appreciate Thom’s writing and his candor about his struggle. A while ago, he wrote about a church in Midland, Texas called Stonegate Fellowship and their Cross Power Ministries Marriage Conference. This Southern Baptist church [...]
I read on Charisma’s website that Gayle Haggard has a new book out. Why I Stayed: The Choices I Made In My Darkest Hour is definitely on my “to read” list, but what is fascinating to me is how many people either have judged or will judge her without understanding her story. They lack [...]
So apparently, the Haggards have been in the media lately - they did a documentary with a pay-per-view cable company, were on “Oprah,” and have been written up in various magazines, newspapers, and the rest. I’m relatively unplugged from the mainstream media, but one thing that I do read with semi-regularity is Charisma magazine, [...]
We saw our therapist this week - it’s been a solid 2 months since we’ve seen him, due to scheduling conflicts. At our last appointment, he referred us to the Theophostic facilitator, we were spiritually attacked in his parking lot, and in the ensuing weeks, we discovered the truth about my husband’s CSA & [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
One of the things our therapist recommended for me was to find a support group. He suggested someone, gave me her number, and then I took it from there. So far, I’ve not been to a face-to-face meeting within this group, but I have partaken in the online group - with mixed results.
The group is [...]
At the close of last week, we heard bothersome news that Ray Boltz had granted an interview to the Washington Blade, a gay-advocacy publication. For those of you who might not recognize the name, Boltz was a composer and singer who had multiple hits in the contemporary Christian music genre in the 90s. [...]
