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Disclosure, part 2

“Yes, I’ve used pornography.” I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, but as soon as he said it all the puzzle pieces began to drop into place.  Everything I had been reading about sexual dysfunction –...

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Jericho Road

here i lie      stripped and bleeding on the road           bruised and broken, left for dead   would you just pass me by?      avert your eyes?           pretend to look at anything but me?   you’re...

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Catch Up 1 – H’s Post Intensive Talk

Posted from my journal entry of 2/10/13 I’m reading When Your Husband is Addicted to Pornography, Healing Your Wounded Heart by Vickie Tiede in the wake of discovering H’s addiction.  The author...

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Walking Underwater

When I was a little girl I was so skinny I could literally walk from the shallow end of a swimming pool to the bottom of the deep end without floating.  Back then it was great entertainment to move...

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Squirrel!

I’m learning about triggers.  H’s and mine.  I’m learning about lots of things I never dreamt of ever having to think about.  Today I’d like to share about how we came up with a good way to make each...

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Hope

Today I leave for Bethesda Workshops Healing for Partners, a 4-day intensive designed to help individuals recover from their SO’s porn addiction.  I leave with mixed feelings. Fear (my not-so-new...

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It’s all about… me?

  Wow. I am back from 4 days of intense discovery.  Self-discovery.  I am a co-addict.  I have co-addictive behaviors up the wazoo.  I have been frantically attempting to manage my husband’s addiction...

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Am I?

So Damn Lucky ~ Dave Matthews Band Everythings different With my head in the clouds I hit this corner With my foot on the gas I started sliding, I lose it Everything’s different just like that Oh my...

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Showing Up

One thing I learned at the Bethesda Healing Workshops was the importance of coming to “the show-up place.”  This place is one of transparency.  Honesty.  Openness.  It’s the place where I need to come...

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Of Intimacy and Light Bulbs

When they told me sex addiction is not about sex and all about intimacy, they were so right!  I am seeing this more and more.  About a week and a half ago I noticed we were having an issue – H was...

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