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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

The Roots of an Addiction

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Destructive addictions usually start with small compromises. The same is true with a pornography problem. John, Greg and Erin discuss some helpful first steps a married man can take if he's struggling with pornography. Featuring Mr. David Samuel.

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0:00.0

Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't

0:04.7

grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I

0:10.2

take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I

0:14.4

ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't

0:18.8

shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love

0:23.6

with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app

0:28.3

today.

0:36.0

If you've been talking to somebody and there's a bowl of candy right there next

0:39.8

to them, you might think to yourself, you know, I'm just going to have a piece.

0:43.3

And then after a few moments you realize you got another one and then a third

0:47.6

piece and four pieces, maybe you even have just kind of emptied the bowl as

0:52.1

you have the conversation. That is how sin seems to work with us, especially

0:57.1

secret sin. You think, oh, I can get away with this. Nobody cares. It doesn't affect

1:01.6

anybody. But eventually a little bit can consume your life. I'm John Fuller joined

1:07.4

by my focus colleagues, Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron. And we're going to

1:11.7

hear now from Dave Samuel and his wife, Kirsten. They went through a very dark

1:16.0

period in their marriage. After it was revealed, he was addicted to pornography.

1:21.0

Here Dave talked to Jim Daley about how that addiction started. Let's pick it up

1:25.7

right there. It was so good last time. So painful. You both had tears. I get it.

1:31.6

And I so appreciate your willingness to share the story because people will

1:35.4

be helped. And that's the bottom line. Dave, I want to ask you because we didn't

1:41.6

really cover this territory last time. That addiction problem. Where did it start?

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