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Why I Stopped Hanging Out with Porn

When I posted a few months ago about how I came to discover my husband's sex addiction, I wrote a post about his porn use and promised to follow up with a post about my own complicated feelings about and relationship with porn. But it's only been recently that I've gotten my mind [...]

Aftermath (and Epilogue)

This is the seventh and (and final!) post in a series on how I came to discover my husband's sex addiction five years ago.

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The days and weeks that followed my husband's initial admission of infidelity blend together almost inseparably now. There are incidents stand out in sharp relief, but they [...]

Explosion

This is the sixth in a series of posts on how I came to discover my husband's sex addiction five years ago.
"I had sex with that woman."
That statement, spoken nearly five years ago, was Mark's first act in recovery from sex addiction and brought the truth blazing upon us both at last. In seconds, I [...]

Quick Haiku Friday Post

I have been busywriting a series of postson my memories.
I didn't want toleave you all hanging on thatfor Haiku Friday.
But didn't want toskip Haiku Friday eitherso here's my quick post.
My series isn'tover quite yet, so stay tuned.I'll be writing more!
Then I'll write on pornSpitzer, God (not all at once!)and haikus. Good times.

It all Comes back Around

This is the fifth in a series of posts on how I came to discover my husband's sex addiction five years ago.
During the last trimester of my pregnancy with my daughter, I entered a nesting phase, cleaning and organizing obsessively in preparation for her arrival. One of the tasks I set for myself was to [...]

The Penultimate Piece of the Puzzle

This is the fourth in a series of posts on how I came to discover my husband's sex addiction five years ago.
When our son was born, our world performed one neat pirouette before going into a crazy, unexpected, largely incomprehensible interpretive dance. Mark and I found ourselves crazy in love with this tiny creature who [...]

Very Mysterious

I have been too busy today (lots of fun goings on here!) to post the next installment of my recent series of posts, but some of you may have noticed that a ghost in the machine posted a video of the Speed Racer theme for me today.
Last week, I posted about singing that song to [...]

Splinters in my Mind

This is the third in a series of posts on how I came to discover my husband's sex addiction five years ago.

"There's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad."~Morpheus in The Matrix

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Five years passed [...]

We Interrupt our Regularly Scheduled Program…

Earlier today, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer admitted his involvement with a prostitution ring, another possible sex addict hit bottom and Silda Spitzer became my newest celebrity BFF.
Even as I tell my story here on my blog about how I came to realize my husband was an addict and how he came to enter recovery, [...]

The Pebble in the Pond

This is the second in a series of posts on how I came to discover my husband's sex addiction five years ago.
Some ten or fifteen years ago, Mark and I were engaged to be married, living together in a cozy (read: small) one bedroom apartment with a computer named Abby. Abby, a Mac Quadra, [...]