Drugs, alcohol, and intimate relationships are a potentially explosive mix. While it is true that substance abuse can have a devastating impact on one’s work and health, intimate relationships are often its first victims. Aside from the user, the greatest impact is often on the substance abuser’s partner. Addicts will choose their drug of choice […]
Pornography is the exhibition and advertising of sex out of the doors of its original context, giving the act a fake, superficial or even dangerous perspective. In reality, pornography is all about massive business traffic. And for the beneficiaries of this traffic, it does not count what means they use, how many bodies they sleep […]
“So I’m asking you all, are there any really good answers or hope?” My husband and I have had this cycle of catching him viewing porn for what seems always. We’ve talked about it and it goes away then somehow comes back. About 4 or 5 years ago, I decided to check the telephone […]
By Matt Gonzales Addiction is a chronic brain disease that can change a person’s life. The disorder can affect work performance and friendships. It can also affect the relationship between the person battling addiction and his or her significant other. Family members of people with addiction often suffer the consequences of a dysfunctional home environment. […]
Most people say it is impossible to change another person. I have watched families beg their addicted kids to accept the gift of treatment and I know that Love is enough. You just need to express it in ways that sometimes feel unbearable to do. The fear of stopping the status quo because they threaten […]
Love Addiction can be loosely defined as a dysfunctional relationship between two people in which one person strives, almost compulsively, to ‘fix’ the other person. A characteristic behavior in Love Addiction is enabling, in which the love addict ignores problem behavior in the other person or makes excuses for them in order to continuously feel […]
What really causes addiction — to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari has seen our current methods fail firsthand, as he has watched loved ones struggle to manage their addictions. He started to wonder why we treat addicts the way we do — and if there might be […]
What is “secure attachment” and how does not having it create fertile grounds for addictions?