Many sex and love addicts have varying patterns which can result in very different ways of approaching and answering these questions. They are not intended to provide a sure-fire method of diagnosis, nor can negative answers to these questions provide absolute assurance that the illness is not present. The following questions are designed to be used as guidelines to identifying possible signposts of sex and love addiction. Admitting personal powerlessness over this affliction, we cease our addictive behavior and turn to guidance from a Power greater than ourselves, make restitution for harm done to others, and reconstruct our lives physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally. In S.L.A.A., we learn to accept the reality of having this addiction and surrender any notion that we can control it successfully on the basis of our unaided will. Sex and love addiction, if left unchecked, always gets worse.However, if we follow a simple program which has proved successful for scores of other men and women with the same illness, we can recover. An obsessive/compulsive pattern, either sexual or emotional (or both), exists in which relationships or sexual activities have become increasingly destructive to career, family and sense of self-respect. It may take several forms - including (but not limited to) a compulsive need for sex, extreme dependency on one person (or many), and/or a chronic preoccupation with romance, intrigue or fantasy. believe that sex and love addiction is a progressive illness which cannot be cured but which, like many illnesses, can be arrested.
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