The Impact of Pornography Addiction on Marriage
Porn is damaging to a marriage because most spouses feel as though it is cheating. It also takes the sexual energy away from the partner and towards the internet.
The definition of sexual addiction is "an unhealthy and/or a harmful relationship with sex."
What does this mean? It means that you are unable to stop acting-out in sexual ways that are harmful to your personal, professional or social life; or you are unable to stop acting-out in sexual ways that are putting your health at-risk. Examples of this may include: inability to stop viewing pornography, having affairs, compulsively masturbating, or having unprotected anonymous sex.
When someone has a sexual addiction, they are in a relationship with their acting-out behavior. In order to end the addiction that relationship must end. I am an internationally Certified Sexual Addictions Therapist (CSAT) through the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP) and a member of the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH).
I have several years of successful experience working with men, women and adolescents who struggle with sexual addictions. Using a task-centered treatment approach, I will devise a personal treatment plan. If this plan is followed, the harmful relationship with the sexual acting-out can be severed, restoring health and wholeness.
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What is Recovery?
You are not in recovery when you make a conscious decision to make no effort to discontinue your acting-out behavior.