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How Long Will It Take My Spouse to Heal from My Betrayal?
In this article I will use the terms wife or she for…
In this article I will use the terms wife or she for the betrayed spouse because that is the focus of my work. However, the information applies regardless of whether the betrayer was the husband…
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How to Restore Your Self-Worth After Competing with Pixels
It happened again just last week. In a support group I facilitate…
It happened again just last week. In a support group I facilitate for wives of sex addicts, a new client said, with shock resonating, “I just don’t get it. You all are such beautiful, intelligent,…
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When Holidays Aren’t Happy: 4 Ways to Deal with Grief and Porn Addiction
My friend sent me a SOS text the other night. She had…
My friend sent me a SOS text the other night. She had discovered a movie on their cable account that she suspected her husband had watched. Her text contained the normal anger and anxiety that…
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Fear of Vulnerability: An Intimacy Disorder or a Human Condition?
Last night as I watched one of my favorite TV shows I…
Last night as I watched one of my favorite TV shows I found myself doing something I know we all have done before. We’ve all yelled at the TV screen, saying something like, “Why don’t…
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My Husband Has PIED: What Do I Do?
Porn-Induced Erectile Dysfunction Is Crushing Marriages In a recent survey sent to…
Porn-Induced Erectile Dysfunction Is Crushing Marriages In a recent survey sent to over 70,000 Covenant Eyes friends, we asked for their input about what types of questions they wanted answered related to porn-induced erectile dysfunction…
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4 Ways to Cultivate Empathy with Your Spouse
Dear betrayed spouse, I hate to break this to you, but somewhere…
Dear betrayed spouse, I hate to break this to you, but somewhere along the journey very well-meaning people will give you their well-meaning advice. Just be prepared. They will tell you not to pull away. They will…
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5 Bad Habits That Kill Love in a Marriage
We live by habits–some good, but some bad! We have habitual behaviors,…
We live by habits–some good, but some bad! We have habitual behaviors, like driving the same path to work every day without even thinking about where we are going or turning next–we just do it.…
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How Can I Prepare for My Husband’s Next Porn Relapse?
Once upon a time, I was blissfully happy. No, my life wasn’t…
Once upon a time, I was blissfully happy. No, my life wasn’t perfect or easy. Instead, it was real–messy, but meaningful. I lived and worked passionately within the world of pornography addiction and betrayal trauma…
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Are you a prisoner to unforgiveness?
As a society, we don’t encourage forgiveness very well, do we? Instead,…
As a society, we don’t encourage forgiveness very well, do we? Instead, the culture encourages resentment and paybacks by making the person suffer for the wrong they’ve done. Unforgiveness is almost celebrated. Our hurts come…
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Have you ever been tempted to cheat?
Given my husband’s attraction to other women over the years, it was…
Given my husband’s attraction to other women over the years, it was almost a given that someone would later ask me, “Have you ever cheated on your husband?” My answer: “No, I have never cheated…