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Are You Married and Alone on Valentine’s Day? Living with Intimacy Anorexia
Women the world over look forward to Valentine’s Day as the opportunity to celebrate their most intimate relationship, a day when they can expect to feel cherished and appreciated,… Read more
Love Avoidant Strategies in Intimacy Anorexia: Criticism
Intimacy anorexics are black belts in avoiding love connections with their primary partners. As such, I view intimacy anorexia as a particularly pernicious form of love avoidance that involves… Read more
The Emotional Rollercoaster & the 10 Pillars of Emotional First Aid (Part 2 of 3)
The following are the pillars that I consider cornerstones for emotional first aid for partners of sex addicts on the emotional rollercoaster of their husband’s sexual addiction. 1. Know… Read more
If My Husband is Intimacy Anorexic, What Am I?
If your husband is intimacy anorexic, then you are suffering Intimacy Deprivation. You may have known for some time that something is not quite right in your relationship and… Read more
Understanding Betrayal Trauma: Trauma Triggers for Partners of Sex Addicts
Although all addictions cause painful consequences to the addict’s spouse, a sex addiction hurts a wife or partner in a way no other addiction can. You may intellectually know that… Read more
What Valentine’s Card do You Pick for Your Sexually Addicted Spouse?
Flowers. Candy. Chocolate. Romance. Silly love songs. Cards. Lots of cards. Cards with hearts. Cards with words of love. Cards of adoration. Cards of “my one and only” and promises… Read more
The Serenity Room: Waiting
How do they do it? The ones washed ashore. Who in a broken pile put themselves together? Who after the hurricane sort the rubble for the nails that still can… Read more
The Serenity Room: The Freedom of Recovery
The New Colossus Emma Lazarus 1883 Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,With conquering limbs astride from land to land;Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman… Read more
The Serenity Room: An Addict Afraid
I’m afraid of the life unlivedThe child inside me who hollers at echoesAnd sits cross-legged, to wait. My time gets shortAnd I want to rest, to listen,But the child… Read more
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