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Accountability and Our Kids: Getting It Right
Parents are more aware than ever about the need for accountability with…
Parents are more aware than ever about the need for accountability with our kids. Thanks to the efforts of Covenant Eyes and others, we have more powerful tools to help us in those efforts. However,…
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Your First Seven Days of Porn Recovery
While traveling recently, I attended a 12-step group. I enjoyed the meeting…
While traveling recently, I attended a 12-step group. I enjoyed the meeting greatly, but was saddened by the lack of long-term sobriety in the room. Over half the guys admitted to acting out that week.…
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How Does Covenant Eyes Protect My Privacy?
Privacy is under attack. Recent stories about large technology organizations who have…
Privacy is under attack. Recent stories about large technology organizations who have compromised our personal, private information have made all of us more careful about what we share. Employees at Covenant Eyes see these stories…
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Shame’s Massive Role in Porn Use
Many of us tend to think we feel shame in response to…
Many of us tend to think we feel shame in response to using pornography. What might surprise you however is that the reverse is also true. The more we feel shame, the more we will…
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If You Love Her, Tell Her the Truth
Consistently, wives of sex addicts share with me how the lies and…
Consistently, wives of sex addicts share with me how the lies and secrets their husbands keep from them hurt more than the sexual acting out itself. I asked a few of these wives the question,…
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3 Benefits of Using Covenant Eyes to Quit Porn
Porn has engulfed our culture like a tsunami. The statistics on pornography…
Porn has engulfed our culture like a tsunami. The statistics on pornography use, even among children, are staggering. Even worse, today’s hardcore porn is so extreme that it makes hardcore porn of the past look…
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When It’s Time to Start Fighting Back
Whether our own life was devastated by porn or a loved one’s,…
Whether our own life was devastated by porn or a loved one’s, there comes a time in our healing journey when we start wanting to fight back. The question quickly becomes, “How?” How do I,…
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Marriage Is Not the Answer to Your Desire for Sex
It’s a line often heard in well-intentioned lessons on sexual purity: God…
It’s a line often heard in well-intentioned lessons on sexual purity: God created sex. It’s His. Pornography and premarital sex are just distortions of what God made that is good: sex within marriage. Those sexual…
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3 Tools Every Marriage Needs to Fight Porn Addiction
The day I stood at the altar, I wish someone would have…
The day I stood at the altar, I wish someone would have told Craig and me that there are three tools every marriage needs to survive—grace, truth, and love. I wish someone would have also…
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4 Reasons to Start Using Screen Accountability Today
Long gone are the days of dial up internet. Of home phones…
Long gone are the days of dial up internet. Of home phones and chunky computers the whole family shares. Of AOL Instant Messenger. Of Xanga and MySpace. You get the picture. The internet has changed, and how we…