025 - Suspecting Spouse

Pure Desire Podcast

Pure Desire Ministries

Sexual Addiction Recovery, Religion & Spirituality, Celebrate Recovery, Sexuality, Porn Recovery, Porn Addiction Recovery, Health & Fitness, Aa, Education, Betrayal Trauma, Recovery, Biblical Recovery, Christian Recovery, Healing, Sa, Christianity, Self-improvement

4.6 • 682 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

We talked to Debby Flanagan, a clinician on staff, about when a spouse suspects that their husband/wife is struggling with porn/sex addiction. We discuss what first steps should be taken and what to avoid when addressing the suspicion. We also talk through about what support and resources are available for men or women in this situation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Pure Desire podcast, where we partner with you to bring hope and freedom on your journey to purity.
0:15.9	Hey there, I'm your host Trevor Windsor, and we're so thankful you're taking time out of your day to hang out with us.
0:20.4	I'm here, as always, with my co-host, Nick Stumbo.
0:22.9	Does this microphone make me look fat?
0:25.1	And today we are joined by a first-time guest, Debbie Flanagan.
0:28.7	Debbie is one of our pastoral sex addiction professionals on our clinical team.
0:33.0	Debbie, welcome to the PD podcast.
0:34.5	It's good to be here.
0:35.7	Welcome, Debbie.
0:36.3	Yes. We're happy to have Debbie on the podcast today to talk about when a spouse is suspecting
0:41.3	that their husband or wife has a sex or porn addiction or is just struggling potentially
0:46.3	with those things.
0:47.3	This is a pretty difficult scenario and is one where it's really hard to know what to do.
0:51.3	So we're looking forward to Debbie, you helping us kind of talk through it
0:54.7	and really help our listeners if they find themselves in the situation. So are you ready to get going?
0:59.3	I'm ready. All righty. So before we jump into the actual questions, Debbie, we just want to give you
1:04.2	an opportunity to tell our listeners a little bit about yourself, your background, your experience with
1:09.6	pure desire and just kind of, you know, your experience with pure desire, and just kind of,
1:10.9	you know, your story.
1:12.6	Sure.
1:13.1	And my healing really started back in 1994 when both Ted and Diane Roberts were at East Hill Church,
1:21.2	and I showed up one day going, what is wrong with me?
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