One of the members of my Partner’s Healing & Empowerment Online Community recently asked a great question that I think many partners would like to know the answer to, so I decided to answer—and expand on the topic—here on the blog. The essence of the question was: When doing a weekly couples recovery check-in, what sobriety date… Continue Reading…
Are You Sabotaging the Addict’s Recovery?
If you’re like most partners, you want the addict in your life to get sober and embrace recovery. The thought of jeopardizing or sabotaging the addict’s recovery may seem unthinkable to you. Unfortunately, many partners do sabotage the addict’s recovery — usually without realizing it. To be clear, you are not responsible for the addict’s recovery. He (or… Continue Reading…
Basics of First-Year Sex Addiction Recovery
It’s important for partners to have a basic understanding of the recovery process. I sometimes find that without this information partners tend to expect or ask either too little or too much from the sex addict. As I discussed in my post what sets sex addiction apart, sex addiction recovery is different than most other addictions where abstaining from… Continue Reading…