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Last week, I asked you all to join the Just for Today Challenge with me, where we would all change one thing about our lives for just one day. I'll share what I did, and if you did something yourself, either share about it [...]
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"Where's the ketchup?"
"Don't you remember?" asks Mark, a little exasperated. "We had this conversation," he says as he begins to describe it to me in elaborate details: all the full sentences I said to him in response to what he said to me about some colossal ketchup [...]
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In the first 12 Step meeting I attended, a group for friends and relatives of sex addicts, I heard repeated references to "our disease." And "our disease" — codependency — supposedly compelled us to engage in codependent behaviors: things like spying on and stalking the addicts [...]
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Years ago, before I knew about my husband's sex addiction, one of the things that drew me to him, that I really liked and respected about him, was how he seemed to have broken away from the pattern of addiction and dysfunction in his family. [...]
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The newborn daughter of a very dear friend of mine recently had heart surgery to correct a congenital defect. Fortunately, the surgery went smoothly, the defect was easy to correct and the baby is doing just fine. Still, it's been a few weeks of highly [...]
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I have spent my share of time cyberstalking the women my husband has acted out with. (Hey, I'm codependent; I'm really, really good at focusing on people who aren't me.) And I'm not alone. Focusing on and obsessing about the activities of acting [...]
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This weekend, for the first time in my life, I had the opportunity to hear a sex addict from my husband's recovery group speaking about his experiences. I know my husband's story, about as intimately as anyone else can; in a way, it's my story too. [...]
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Now rumor would have it that my son's autism translates into rigid, ritualistic behavior patterns. And you may have heard that he's afraid to try new things: from new play structures to new foods. But don't listen.
Yesterday, his sister asked to go play at a friend's [...]
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We faced a major crisis recently: I couldn't find one of my son's shoes. And his shoe was not just missing, but missing at the worst possible time: moments before the bus was due to arrive. Now, it's not that Austen doesn't own [...]
