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[quote=Anonymous]thanks OP for your honesty. Do you think your husband will be able to forgive you? Its a lot from which to recover. Did your sexual behavior include other addiction behaviors (drinking, etc)?

fwiw.  I am a relatively happily married mom who has never cheated on my husband, but in my early 30s, when I was mostly single, I went through a couple years of behavior that was unhealthy and that, in retrospect, was verging on addiction, although I would not have called it that at the time. while one part of me was craving was real intimacy and connection, I consistently sabotaged that sleeping with someone else. I had a ton of short term relationships and slept with people I didnt know well at all.

I then had a messed up relationship with someone who was equally/more messed up and had a true sex addiction, and it took me down a dark path. Ultimately it all came to a head and I ended it and spent a couple years getting my head on straight, but not without a lot of shame.  It was HARD to learn to be by myself, and not use sex (and the attention and the drinking and the flirting) to distract me from dealing with my own feelings of insecurity and loneliness and unworthiness and shame. Deep shame. and you would not have known this if you had met me: I had a top education, good job, was in excellent shape, lots of friends, etc. [/quote]

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