Having an accountability partner can powerfully impact your life. We know because we’ve helped facilitate over one and a half million accountability partnerships for people trying to quit porn. Here’s the main thing we’ve learned about good accountability partners: The best accountability partners are allies who support and encourage you,…
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Girls Hooked on Porn: Battle Notes from a Weathered Fighter
Four months ago, when my pastor approached me to film my testimony, my thoughts went something like this: “Share my testimony? You mean, I would be telling the entire church that I have dealt with an addiction to pornography? No way they will take that well. I don’t want everyone to…
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Accountability Groups: How They Succeed, Fail, & Simple Steps to Start
Accountability and accountability groups have been buzzwords for a while. But it’s for good reason. When done right, accountability can completely change your life. “I struggled on and off with looking at porn for 40 years,” recounted John Doyel. “When the internet and the phone in my pocket made it…
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4 Myths About Our Kids and Porn
A mom recently contacted me because her 11-year-old son had been looking at porn. She didn’t know what to do and needed to talk to someone. Just the week before, Julie [name changed] was having a conversation with her 18-year-old son about life. At one point in his teenage years, he…
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How to Tell If Your Husband Is Really in Recovery
When a women discovers she is married to a sex addict, all trust is lost. She feels she doesn’t even know the man who shares her bed. Her entire marriage may feel like a lie. If her husband is getting help for his addiction, and if she decides to stay…
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Longing For Acceptance: Cole’s Story
My exposure to pornography began when I was very young. At 13, I remember sitting in the cafeteria and hearing about these images and videos. I was a pastor’s kid, raised to value the truth given by the Word of God. I knew what I was doing was wrong, but…
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Purity Culture and Its Unfortunate Intersection With Porn
It seems like every few weeks, something happens to make purity culture trend on Twitter. As of this writing, it’s trending due to the release of a podcast about the brief lifespan of a major megachurch, but nearly anything could trigger rants about purity culture: an influencer’s “deconstruction”; the revelation…
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My Daughter Has Been Looking at Porn: Advice to Christian Parents
If there ever was a time in our culture when porn was an exclusively male habit, that time is long gone. About half of young adult women today believe viewing pornography is acceptable behavior. About one third of young women today use porn from time to time, and one in five do…
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6 Ways to Raise a Sex Addict
In my seven years of counseling sex addicts and their wives, I’ve seen some common themes amongst the sex addicts’ families of origin. I’d like to share them with you today. Here are six ways to raise a sex addict. In the chance that you’d rather focus on raising your…
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Myth Busters: “I’ll stop looking at porn when I get married”
The TV show MythBusters is known for taking popular myths and showing if they are true or not. More often than not, true to the show’s name, myths are “busted,” shown for the falsehoods they really are. I hope this article serves as a buster for two popular myths single…
