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My name is David I am a recovering Sex & Love Addict and 46 years old. I am 17 months sober 18 months in recovery. Until 18 months ago I had no idea I was ill I believed I was just bad 20 months ago I tried to take my life as my double life had come crashing down around me and I could not carry on acting out but neither could I stop. To me it seemed that a permanent solution was the only way to keep me from hurting those I loved. My sex addiction was, as I Read More

As I type , I try to recall my earliest memories with my love/sex addiction battle. Coming from a broken, fragmented, damaged, addictive parental background and raised by my Mother I am only aware in my adulthood of the impact of rejection and grief for the family I never had in my childhood. I am conscious I don't want to look back with doom on my history, but I do know there's lots of darkness still hidden and a complicated history of 'adult child syndrome'. My sexual fantasies I remember started as a young child , most likely in order to Read More

Your story of Experience, Strength and Hope: I have sought comfort from sex for years... My name is Patric and I am a sex, love and fantasy addict. I found SLAA just 3 months ago, after finding myself in the car at 4am one morning, en route to try and find the new man in my ex partner's life; gripped by a mental obsession with a power that I never knew existed until that night. Not only could I not let go of the feelings that erupted within me, I could not stop myself 'thinking' about them either. I would lie in bed Read More

  Your story of Experience, Strength and Hope: not so much recovery. more where i am at the moment and why i am at this place. Im now 45. I wrote it about 13 years ago HAVE YOU GOT A LIGHT? I was seven on the day, my uncle asked me to play. He asked if I’d like to have a toy fight. The dirty old bastard, he stole my light. Be a good boy and you’ll go to heaven. What did I know, I was only seven. I asked him to stop it.  I felt strange. He reached into his pocket and threw me some change. “Everyone does it.  It’s Read More

  Just want to share this and say ... keep believing in yourself and keep coming back - 12 step are a perfect foundation to begin our new life's and it is progress not perfection... I will always have to work on this stuff .... always trust in your intuition and believe in yourself!!! 🙂 Read More

 

I´m rising again after two weekends through them I realized how my faith was breaking in little particles... fortunatelly (This is a very weak confortation) I did not involve people into execrable sexual acts...I have stayed alone...But my mind has played with my will...

I´d like to get contact with more members...It´s hard to feel so alone walking this path to recovery...Horizon sometimes disappears to my sight.... Read More

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Your story of Experience, Strength and Hope: Clearing things up with my-self is helping me a lot...Thanks SLAAUK I´m living in Colombia, however I´d like to hold this conversations on english language, in the paragraphs below I will explain why I´m proposing this requirement... You will realize that this is not my native language. I have held meetings with a bioenergetic physician, he is a well known professional in his area and he has recommended to me using this language as a therapy... I haven´t been able to reveal him the extension and depth of my adictions so that I just have sketched my Read More

Your story of Experience, Strength and Hope: Sometimes is so hard to believe that I´m going to recover my dignity, create a true relationship with myself and my Higher Power. Hi, Today is my 50th day in recovery in SLAA. I live in Madrid where there´s no SLAA meetings. I have 4 years 6 months of AA recovery but I don´t feel like sharing this sex and love addiction in AA meetings, so the only person that Im in contact is my SLAA sponsor in another part of Spain. I never met her its only a voice telling me that SLAA Program Read More

  hello , i have been in slaa now 4 7 months, and this is my story.. my dad was a violent alcoholic, and my mum had to kick him out when i was 2 years old..i think that must of destroyed me, as he was my everything violent or not...he was probably my first love addiction. he came back when i was five.. which was the only time i remember really being happy..just one day, then he was gone again foreverhate grew in me after that..and i hid it all from every one even me.. my mum was usless to me, so depressed Read More