Tuscaloosa Christian Counseling

If you are married to a sex addict, you may have developed certain behaviors and thought patterns. You may have let the sex addict’s behavior affect you. You may also be very focused on trying to manage or control his behaviors. If you continue to focus on your partner and his behaviors, you may develop certain characteristics: denial, preoccupation, enabling, rescuing, taking excessive responsibility, emotional turmoil, efforts to control, a compromise of self, anger, and sexual issues. You may be dealing with a few of these characteristics or the majority of them. Regardless, being in a relationship with a sex addict can cause major disruptions in your own life.

Many partners of sex addicts seek out individual therapy to help them learn ways to disentangle themselves from the web of their partner’s sex addiction. Many find additional support by attending a group designed specifically for partners of sex addicts.

Tuscaloosa Christian Counseling hosts a variety of support groups for male and female sex addicts, partners of male sex addicts, as well as teens who may be struggling with sexual addiction. Help is available. Please call us at (205) 752-7557 for more information. You don’t have to suffer alone.

This information was adapted from an excellent book, Mending a Shattered Heart, edited by Stephanie Carnes. It is available through the Tuscaloosa Christian Counseling website.