After 16 years of marriage, I discovered that I married a man who struggled with sexual addiction (specifically pornography addiction) for the duration of our marriage. Did you just say, sexual addiction?
I remember my first question was: What does sexual addiction even mean? I felt devastated, hurt, paranoid, a little creeped out, and confused. The trust between us was broken, the safety in my marriage- shattered, and the shame-overwhelming.
My resources come from my personal journey of experiencing what I now know is called “complex partner betrayal trauma.”
16 years of betrayal…4 years of consistent, arduous work at healing.
I am no expert, but these are my most helpful resources on this journey thus far. I have struggled, fought, and persevered to find these gems. This is the list I wish I had found when I became Humpty Dumpty…
Perhaps these resources might just help you to begin to pick up the broken pieces, as they have done for me. In every book, you will always find a list of resources/sources at the very end; however, in my journey they belong in chapter one, because in the beginning this is what I needed most, a list of helpful resources.
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