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Partners of Sex Addicts & Infidelity Survivors: Morning After-Remorse

Partners of Sex Addicts & Infidelity Survivors: Morning After-Remorse   Beware of his remorse. Remorse is a common reaction for people who have done something they know hurts people around… Read more

Empowerment Toolbox: Empower Yourself with the Wonder Woman Pose

Empowerment Toolbox: Empower Yourself with the Wonder Woman Pose   Ever notice Wonder Woman’s confidence? How she conveys her sense of power? How you know her strength is about more… Read more

Valentine’s Day is Painful for Betrayed Hearts

Valentine’s Day is Painful for Betrayed Hearts   Many women look forward to Valentine’s Day as the celebration of their spouse’s love and commitment, the day he pours his love into… Read more

Partners of Sex Addicts: Let Your Tears Water Your Soul

Partners of Sex Addicts: Let Your Tears Water Your Soul Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.                                               Eileen Mayhew Letting down our guard, releasing the tension that keeps… Read more

Partners of Sex Addicts: Starting Today’s Resolutions

Partners of Sex Addicts: Starting Today’s Resolutions If the past year has been one filled with disbelief, pain, sorrow, fear, or pockets of white hot anger, you may be looking… Read more

Is Your Online Friendship Too Friendly?

  Take the following quiz to determine if your online friendship has become too friendly.  Do you find yourself coming to bed later at night because you are chatting online?Do… Read more

Why Did I Believe the Lies? Understanding the Truth Bias

“As relationships become more intimate, people develop a truth bias in which they are more likely to judge their partners as truthful and less likely to detect deception.” In hindsight,… Read more

What Does Intimacy Anorexia Have to Do with Sex Addiction and Why Should Partners of Sex Addicts Care?

  Intimacy anorexia is an extreme form of love avoidance in which emotional, spiritual, and/or sexual intimacy is actively withheld from the primary relationship partner. So what does that have… Read more

Partners of Sex Addicts: Sex Addiction Induced Trauma

I recently came across an article in The National Psychologist by Dr. Omar Minwalla. Dr. Minwalla is a psychologist, clinical sexologist and clinical director of The Institute for Sexual Health… Read more

Partners of Sex Addicts: Feeding My Spirit

  Betrayal Takes Many Forms Some of us have been betrayed with pornography or prostitutes, fantasies with which we can’t compete. For some of us, the other woman takes on… Read more