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    This excerpt comes from  He's a Porn Addict...Now What?  (Overbay and Shea) Some people say I don't want him to disclose everything to me.  Are they correct?   Tony, the mental health professional: “I want to know everything you did” is one of those statements I hear regularly in my therapy sessions with couples. There is a modality of therapy where the husband and wife start putting out their truths. It's viewed as an emotional bid to be vulnerable. The idea is that they are sharing their heart with their partner, but it's done knowing that the other person loves and cares about them and wants to know their truth. So, there’s disclosure from the spouse and all of a sudden we're in this world known as betrayal trauma, where the wife is going back and trying to put everything together. This is the point at which I hear phrases like: “My whole marriage has been a sham,” or, “I can't trust anything he says or does now.” For the wife, it often becomes, “I w...

  This excerpt comes from He's a Porn Addict...Now What? (Overbay and Shea) How did he manage to conceal it all so well and deceive me for such a long time?   Tony, the mental health professional: You may have just found out, but more than likely there have been years of this pattern of behavior on his part that have led to either his disclosure or your discovery, and during these years there has undoubtedly been a tremendous amount of guilt and shame on his part. Guilt can be a good emotion, because it can cause someone to evaluate a situation and motivate them to do something different. But when shame kicks in, that’s the voice that tells you, “You’re a horrible person and you’ll never overcome this. People are going to know you’re a fraud, or that you’re disgusting if they ever find out about this.” Pornography is the type of addiction that for most individuals is laced with guilt and shame, evolving into an addiction fueled by isolation because they don’t want ...

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  Today's Publisher's Pride is He's a Porn Addict...Now What? by Tony Overbay and Joshua Shea , which reached #80 in sexual addiction and #295 in sexual health recovery. For more posts about Tony Overbay, click  HERE . For more posts about Joshua and his books, click  HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC monthly newsletter (recent releases, sales/discounts, awards, reviews, Amazon top 100 list, author advice, and more -- stay up to date) Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Planning on self-publishing and don't know where to start? Our  author au pair  services will mentor you through the process. Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  reviewing  a current or forthcoming MSI Press LLC book? Contact editor@msipress.com. Want an  author-signed copy ...