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Members Share how S-Anon has Helped Them
These
stories are intended to be a sampling of S-Anon experience; however,
there are as many stories as there are S-Anon members, and these
examples are by no means an exhaustive catalogue of our experiences with
the disease of sexaholism. We hope that newcomers reading these stories
will be able to identify with some of the feelings shared and benefit
from the experience, strength, and hope given.
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"My jealousy and a sense that I was competing
for affection against an elusive other lover burst through my
facade. "
My first husband left me for a younger woman,
leaving me with a sense of personal failure. I decided that my
mistake had been marrying a man with "poor values" - alcoholism,
materialism, and bizarre sexual preferences...
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"I finally realized that I couldn't control him. I despaired; I didn't know
what to do. "
I remember
one rough period when I just couldn't seem to do anything to make my husband
happy. I didn't know at the time that an affair he was having was breaking up.
I just knew that he was angry with me...
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"The unmanageability
in my life became apparent to me only after months of going to meetings. "
I came to S-Anon based on a clear ultimatum from my wife - make some changes now or she
was leaving. Despite her recovery and sexual sobriety and my attendance at
meetings of another Twelve Step fellowship, according to her, our lives were
still "unmanageable"...
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"Underlying my dating was the belief that if only
I could find the relationship and somehow "get it right this time," I
would be happy."
I grew up
in a family saturated with the effects of sexaholism. My father had multiple
affairs and attempted to sexually abuse my aunt when she was 15 years old. My
parents allowed another family to live with us for the first year of my life.
I believe I was sexually abused by this family friend during that time...
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