Understanding Your Spouses Addiction

Understanding a husbands addiction can be a process almost as difficult as the process for the addict themselves. There is hope in this addiction and many couples have found revitalization in their marriages and relationships by getting help. There is hope through recovery. Women feel betrayed and hurt when they find out about a husbands addiction. Some rally behind their husbands and others feel so hurt that they push away. No matter where you are take some time to communicate your feeling on this forum. Feel free to ask questions and pose concerns. Ask other women how they have coped.

Here is a letter on the Innergold website that one wife of a client sent. [url=http://www.innergold.com/spouse.cfm]http://www.innergold.com/spouse.cfm[/url]

If your spouse is not willing to go through the program do not hesitate to read up on it yourself. Many wife's of addicts have benefited greatly in understanding by reading the Manual. There is hope and help.

Here is what one wife had to say:
“When I found out that my husband had a pornography addiction I was sick. My first reaction was to leave him. It made me feel that I wasn’t good enough, that it was my fault because I wasn’t pretty enough or available enough. This has been the hardest thing for me to deal with in my life. It is only through therapy and gaining the information in Gordon’s treatment manual that I’ve been able to stay with my husband. I now understand what an addiction is and how it develops. I understand that my husband is not a terrible person but a sick person who needs help. I now understand how the addicted brain works and why pornography is so destructive. I’m so grateful that my husband has found this help. He was embarrassed by this addiction and didn’t know where to find help. He was very skeptical that anything could help him. We are continuing to work through this but our relationship is better now than it has been in years. Despair, anger and frustration has been replaced by hope. Thank you Gordon!"