Episode 209: Sex Addiction, Cheating, and Betrayal with Dr. Rob
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Is it sex addiction, or is he just a cheater? Does the distinction even matter? That is just one of the topics I discuss in this episode with my guest, Robert Weiss, Ph.D., LCSW (Dr. Rob). Dr. Rob is the Chief Clinical Officer of Seeking Integrity LLC, which provides online education and residential treatment for sex, porn, and substance/sex-addicted men and their families.
During our conversation, we delve into the differences between sex addiction and love addiction and discuss whether sex addiction is just a fancy name for cheating. We also explore coping with betrayal and how to move forward and restore trust as a couple.
This episode provides a deep and informative conversation about sex addiction and cheating and provides insights for listeners who may be struggling with these issues in their own relationships.
Featured topics include:
- The difference between sex addiction and love addiction (5:18)
- Is sex addiction just a fancy name for cheating? (15:09)
- Coping with betrayal: understanding betrayal trauma and ambivalent love (22:44)
- How to move forward and restore trust as a couple after betrayal (30:20)
- "There is nothing you have ever done that caused this to happen." (38:42)
- Dr. Rob sounds off about codependence vs. prodependence (39:05)
- The impact on children when a parent cheats or is a sex addict, plus what to say or not to say to a child about their cheating/addicted parent (51:50)
Learn more about Dr. Rob:
Robert Weiss, Ph.D., LCSW is Chief Clinical Officer of Seeking Integrity LLC, with clinical programs that provide online education and residential treatment for sex, porn, and substance/sex-addicted men and their families. A psychotherapist and addiction specialist, he has created six intimacy and addiction treatment programs in the US, Southeast Asia, and the US military. Dr. Weiss is an online host for Digital Addiction on A&E. He has served as a subject-matter expert for numerous major media outlets, including CNN, NPR, and The New York Times, among others. He is the author of eleven books, including Prodependence, Sex Addiction 101, and Out of the Doghouse. His Psychology Today blog, "Love and Sex in the Digital Age," has over 21 million reads, while his podcast, "Sex, Love, & Addiction," has over 1.1 million downloads.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of |
| 0:23.3 | the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. I've been to |
| 0:29.1 | hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process |
| 0:35.1 | with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome back. I hope everybody is having a fantastic March. We're at the end of March already, |
| 0:53.3 | y'all. Holy moly. So today's episode |
| 0:56.7 | I have with me Dr. Robert Weiss. A few of you have posted about him in our Facebook group, |
| 1:04.0 | and I think his work is just phenomenal. Dr. Robb is the chief clinical officer at Seeking Integrity, which is an organization that provides online education and residential treatment for sex, porn, and substance slash sex-addicted men and their families. |
| 1:22.3 | Dr. Weiss is an online host for digital intervention on A&E and has served as a subject matter expert for |
| 1:29.8 | major media outlets, including CNN and PR and the New York Times. And now, the divorce |
| 1:35.0 | survival guide. He's the author of 11 books. Holy moly. Eleven, I'm still working on one. |
| 1:48.1 | His books include pro-dependence, which we're going to talk about, sex addiction 101, and out of the doghouse. So for all of you who are wondering, |
| 1:56.8 | is it sex addiction or is he just a cheater? And does the distinction necessarily matter? |
| 2:02.7 | And what is sex addiction? Dr. Rob is here to answer all of these questions. We get a little |
| 2:10.9 | heated in some of our conversations, I think, in this episode. But we are, it may seem like |
| 2:17.2 | that we disagree on some things. |
| 2:18.8 | And I think we do on some, on some small things, but ultimately I think we're completely |
| 2:25.2 | in alignment. |
| 2:25.9 | And I really enjoyed this conversation with Dr. Rob, very thought-provoking, challenging, |
| 2:31.3 | and invigorating. |
| 2:33.8 | So before I get to the episode, I just want to remind everybody that I am still always accepting |
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