Category Archives: Addiction

Affair Fog Theory: Sex Addiction

16 September, 2014
Infidelity & Affair Help: The Myth of Sex Addiction

Part 3: Affair Fog Theory: Sex Addiction This third part of the affair fog series looks at the issue of sex addiction and whether it has validity as part of affair fog theory. It’s a lengthy article in order to adequately explore such a popular claim. Part 1: Affair Fog …

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The Pornography Excuse

14 June, 2013
Infidelity & Affair Help: Psychology

Pornography Is Not the Problem—You Are by David J. Ley Ph.D. Complaining about the dangers of porn distracts from personal responsibility. Porn is not addictive. Sex is not addictive. The ideas of porn and sex addiction are pop psychology concepts that seem to make sense, but have no legitimate scientific …

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Affairs and Addiction: Part 3

4 June, 2013
Infidelity & Affair Help: Dr Haltzman

Part 1: The Relationship Between Infidelity & Addiction Part 2: Affairs: The Flame Addiction ~ Wayfarer [hr] Affairs: Beating Flame Addiction By Dr Scott Haltzman Part 3: In the third and final installment, Dr. Haltzman offers tips on how to overcome and break free of flame addiction. Indeed, recognizing infidelity …

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Affairs and Addiction: Part 2

3 June, 2013
Moth to a Flame

Affairs: The Flame Addiction By Dr Scott Haltzman Part 2: In the second installment of a 3-part series, Dr. Haltzman explains—like a moth to a flame—why those who cheat find the attraction difficult to let go of. If you have had an affair, you know that the kind of attraction …

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Affairs and Addiction: Part 1

1 June, 2013
Infidelity & Affair Help: Dr Haltzman

Other Affair/Infidelity and Sex Addiction Posts: Affairs & Infidelity: Choice Not Addiction Challenging the Myth of Sex Addiction ~ Wayfarer [hr] Affairs: The Relationship Between Infidelity & Addiction by Dr Scott Haltzman (edited) Most of the people I have treated, however, even those who use pornography or visit prostitutes… do …

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Affairs & Infidelity: Choice not Addiction

3 May, 2013
Infidelity & Affair Help: Psychology

As we explored in It’s Not Infidelity - It’s Sex Addiction, despite popular culture labels, the idea of sex addiction is not based on any diagnostic criteria and was again recently excluded from the DSM (American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). Claiming ‘sex addiction’ as cause …

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Getting Over Your Emotional Affair

9 February, 2013

12 Ways To Recover from an Emotional Affair By Therese J. Borchard (edited) I receive a handful of e-mails a day from my readers who are either stuck in an emotional affair or have ended one but are still extremely heartsick. How can I let go and move on? they …

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It’s Not Infidelity - It’s Sex Addiction

2 February, 2013

Claiming a sex addiction can seem to some like a legitimate and compelling excuse for infidelity. It allows that the infidelity and betrayal wasn’t personal, but was a ‘physiological response’ to an addiction; “I would never deliberately cheat on you - my addiction made me do it”  or , “I …

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Infidelity’s Trifecta

18 January, 2013
Infidelity & Affair Help Advice

Why Even the Strongest Can Fall by Rick Reynolds (edited) There is an elixir so powerful that exposure can cause even the strongest of men to fall. No matter how empty or full one’s purse or the purity of one’s intentions, ongoing exposure to infidelity’s trifecta inevitably leads to betrayal. …

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