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. Photo credit: gebauer on Flickr The days and weeks that followed my husband's initial admission of infidelity blend together almost inseparably now. There are incidents that stand out in sharp relief, [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Photo credit: TreMichLan on Flickr Five [...]
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, [...]
Where it all Started
This is the first in a series of posts on how I came to discover my husband's sex addiction five years ago. To tell the story of how I came to learn that my husband is a sex addict, I have to start nearly fifteen years ago, when we first moved in together. A pebble [...]
