What's up everybody? This is the Betray, the addicted, and the expert. My name is Brannon and I am the expert.

And I'm Ashland and I was the portrayed and I'm Kobe the recovering addict.

What you're going to get is three unique perspectives on recovery and tools for hope and healing.

All right, welcome to the Betray, the addicted, and the expert.

Like we always do, we're going to start with a review from our podcast and it's a little bit different so I'm excited about it.

I'm going to read the review.

We're actually going to do the entire episode around this review because he brings up a really good point and he brings up a good point of

conversation and discussion. So I'll just read most of it and we'll get into it from there.

So he says, I hope these podcast authors have the confidence in their statements to read some of the negative reviews too.

While sex addiction is very legitimate, I am one of the many many people

misdiagnosed by people who embrace an overly conservative definition of sex

addiction, which is flatly untrue.

I attended, so he attended meetings, I don't want to say the name of those meetings, I attended

meetings for months, I admitted I was powerless over me before I let them dust, oh wait let's see, before I let the dust

settle from the affair I caused and realized I have high sexual libido like almost all

mammals by our physical design, but I am in no way

shape or form a sex addict. The overly conservative views promote this. There

are dozens of articles that talk about sex addict or just

cheater. While my process looking into sex addiction let me understand some of my

origins of my behavior, there are three core elements that create sex addiction, shame, neglect, and trauma.

If you don't have all three or experienced all three in your upbringing, then you are likely

not a sex addict.

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