Have you ever felt strangely sad and gloomy for days, like the world is suddenly colorless and oppressive? Have you ever felt a certain heaviness like there’s an elephant sitting on your chest? Have you ever lost interest in the things you like to do or suddenly wanted to avoid…
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Spying on Your Husband on the Computer
Thinking back on my “Magnum PI” days literally makes my stomach turn. I accidentally came across my husband’s porn addiction back in the early 90s after being married for only three years. He was attending seminary class in the evening, and I was waiting for AOL to tell me if…
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What Every Wife of a Sex Addict Has a Right to Know About Her Husband’s Recovery
When sex addicts are in early recovery, their wives (if they have chosen to stay in the marriage) live in fear. Fear that you will relapse. Fear that you will cheat again. Fear that you may lose your job because of a slip at work. There are more fears than…
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What Kind of Beauty Are You Consuming?
Billions upon billions of people watch pornography. One of the largest adult-content websites in the world boasted 33.5 billion visits in 2018. From their year-end records, they state so much pornographic content has been uploaded on their site that, “If you were to start watching 2018’s videos after the Wright…
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Teaching Kids the Birds and the Bees Without the Butterflies (Book Review)
I like talking to my kids. I like when my kids ask questions. I like God’s gift of sex. So why is it so difficult to talk to my kids about sex? Why do I freeze up, fumble my words and feel like a failed parent afterward? I want to…
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Why live with it?
What discomfort or debilitation are we living with today that we don’t need to? What unpleasant aspect of our life do we accept as normal when it isn’t? It’s so easy to assume we already know everything we can do to help ourselves. However, there are usually methods we’ve never heard…
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Porn and Stress: How to Relieve Stress Without Relapsing
How do you handle stress? Is it possible that stress is causing you to relapse back into watching porn? This past summer, I went through one of the more stressful seasons of my life as my family relocated from one end of the United States to the other. In that…
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Is It Wrong to Masturbate to Fantasies of My Wife?
Is masturbating to your wife a sin? What if you masturbate to thoughts of your fiancé or girlfriend? We received this question from someone in our community: “I have asked several pastors/mentors/friends about masturbation and whether it is sinful or not. I do not watch pornography, however, sometimes when I…
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Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder Is Now Officially Recognized
Sexual addiction is becoming an official mental health diagnosis. The World Health Organization (WHO) met in May of this year and adopted the new ICD-11, which includes the diagnosis of Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder (CSBD). Covenant Eyes users might think, “What does this mean for my struggle with porn? How should…
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Do You Have the Emotional Intelligence to Quit Porn?
“Yeah, I would say Kevin is making good progress with his pornography addiction,” Carol told me during a couple’s session when I asked if she thought her husband was on the right path of recovery. “But there’s still something wrong. He doesn’t talk, except to give one-word answers, and I…