By Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
Addictions fall into two categories: substance addictions – such as food, drugs, alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine, and process addictions – such as TV, compulsive exercise, anger, obsessive thinking, controlling behavior, and sex. Sexual addiction, or using sex addictively, is like any other addiction: it is using something or someone to fill you […]
Written by Sex Addict on February 28th, 2007 with no comments.
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By Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
Megan asked the following questions in one of our phone sessions:
“Over and over, when I’m really attracted to a man and I sleep with him
fairly early in the relationship, I discover that he is not good husband
material. What am I doing wrong? Am I just attracted to the wrong kind of
men?”
This is […]
Written by Sex Addict on February 23rd, 2007 with no comments.
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By Dr. Robert Huizenga
One kind of extramarital affair revolves around sexual addiction. The partner involved in the affair, plain and simple, has a difficult time saying “NO.” He/she may want to, but feels compelled to say “yes.”
People can’t say no? Well, I believe we all have the capacity, at some level, to say no. However, […]
Written by Sex Addict on February 17th, 2007 with no comments.
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