Category Archives: Understanding Addiction

What can I do about him…no, about me?

Rhyll Croshaw’s book, What Can I Do about Him Me? is helping a lot of wives get some clarity about their situation. Rhyll speaks from the voice of 40 years of life with a man who has struggled with sexual … Continue reading

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Donald Hilton at BYU Pornography/Sexual Addiction Conference

Dr. Donald Hilton, neurosurgeon who has done extensive writing and presenting on the brain disease facet of addiction, recently presented at a Social Work conference on the topic of pornography/sexual addiction. Following is the video of his entire presentation. Dr. … Continue reading

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Training for Bishops by Maurice Harker

Today Maurice Harker (Sons of Helaman) blogged that he’s doing some training for bishops soon. Although it is geared toward interviewing young men, I think a lot of what he suggests still applies to when bishops interview adult men. I … Continue reading

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What She Wishes She Would Have Known

Back on July 23 What I Wish I’d Known Before Watching Porn by Lauren Dubinsky ran on the Huffington Post.  In this very open and honest article, Dubinsky relates that even though she doesn’t have an addictive personality, watching porn … Continue reading

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How Is Porn Addictive?

I saw this info-graph at Fight the New Drug and thought I’d share it if you haven’t seen it yet.

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Dr. Mark Laaser on Sexual Addiction (with some helpful info for wives)

Dr. Mark Laaser is both a Christian counselor and a former sexual addict. In this PurePassionTV video, Dr. Laaser talks about his experience with overcoming sexual addiction, about how addiction works (both emotionally (many addicts are, as he describes, “wounded”) … Continue reading

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Having compassion for those struggling with addiction

When one is personally affected by someone else’s pornography addiction, it is very normal to feel angry, hurt, confused, and more. And so this post is not meant to minimize the painful impact of addiction on a loved one. But … Continue reading

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“Why can he/she not just stop looking at porn?”

A wife of a pornography addict reflects what many loved ones feel  when a loved one is unable to stop looking at pornography. Every time I ask myself  “Why doesn’t he just NOT LOOK?”  or “If he knows how this … Continue reading

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