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This is my journal to help me work the twelve steps, especially step twelve as I work the road to recovery.
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Psychology Today interview about "crying over spilled semen"
I find the below article very interesting from a natural law perspective. Women who have sexual relations without a condom are happier and less suicidal than woman who are celibate or use condoms. As a sex addict and a Catholic I think that contracep...
Of Late
Life has been hectic around the house. I was up late as I worked overtime last night. When I last entered into recovery I told my wife I would be accountable to her for my actions. This worked well for a time and I had measures in place. This is not...
Journal 20070701
Tonight, I went to my weekly meeting. Tonight one of our members gave his first step. I know that this was hard for him to do. It took up most of the meeting and his recounting encompassed probably over 30 hand-written pages. This step was a reco...
Journal 20070628
One of my favorite songs from adolescence is For Crying out Loud as performed by MeatLoaf. It still to this day strikes a chord in my heart. However, as I grow and mature I have come to realize that it describes the addict in me and my true self. It...
Lust Versus Intimacy
One of the biggest things addiction to lust, more commonly know as Sex Addicts or Sexaholics, does to a person is it makes them incapable of sharing with anyone else who they really are. It could be due to embarrassment, shame, guilt or a variety of...
The road is long....
I don't know if any of you have the song running through your head that I do right now:He Ain't HeavyThe road is long, With many a winding turn, That leads us to who knowswhere, Who knows where, But I'm strong, Strong enough to carry him, He ain'thea...
Journal entry for the Morning of 6-14-07
Wow, I worked for 12 hours yesterday, skipped going and working out afterwards. Its probably a good thing as I hade to get up about 0900 as my wife had somewhere to go and someone needed to watch the kids. Just sitting here and drinking coffee, the...
An Era of Prohibition in my Marriage
"...this meant no sex with themselves or other, invluding not getting intorelationships. For others it also meant "drying out" and not havingsex with the spouse for a time to recover from lust."--From "The Solution, Page 204 of SA's White BookThis wa...
Step One: My life is unmanageable due to what?
We admitted that we were powerless over lust -- that our lives had becomeunmanageable.This step has two parts that are very distinct in it. When we begin this process it is out of an admission that our lives are unmanageable, but first our lives hav...
My fear about ridding myself of lust.
One thing that I want in my life is the removal of lust from my being. I struggle to surrender that to God and work to lessen its control over me every day. Lust is my vice that I struggle with. My fear is that in trying to remove the impulse of t...
What is an addiction
I guess the first thing that I should write about is to tell you what having a sexual addiction means. In some ways this is a very hard thing to explain as most people don't understand this specific addiction, it makes them uncomfortable or they thin...
