When Your Spouse is Addicted to Porn
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
When a wife learns her husband is struggling with pornography, it's very heartbreaking. In that situation, where do you turn to for help? John, Erin and Greg discuss common mistakes wives make in that situation and point to some ways to get help. Featuring Mrs. Rosie Makinney.
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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. |
| 0:35.8 | It's one of the most heartbreaking things for a couple to go through and that is |
| 0:40.1 | the discovery that one of them has been struggling with pornography. And if you |
| 0:45.9 | or someone you know is facing that very situation, this episode of the show is |
| 0:50.4 | going to give you some hope. I'm John Fuller joined by my focus colleagues Aaron |
| 0:55.0 | and Greg Smolley and Greg. Both of you work with couples you've heard from |
| 1:00.2 | so many about this kind of a struggle. What are some of the commonalities of |
| 1:03.8 | that? I think instantly someone can feel very unsafe, very insecure in their |
| 1:10.6 | relationship. They may feel betrayed like in you know in ways that you know |
| 1:15.6 | you've betrayed the fidelity that I have expected. I think there's a |
| 1:21.4 | suspiciousness that can happen like okay if now I just found this out or you |
| 1:27.2 | didn't even mean to tell me but I found out what else is going on. So I think it |
| 1:31.6 | makes them doubt some of the things that they were trusting and believing in |
| 1:35.5 | counting on. I think that someone can feel instantly not good enough. What is |
| 1:41.4 | it about me? Am I not pretty enough good enough? Like what is it about me that |
| 1:45.9 | would cause you to go look at pornography? Can be angry especially at the |
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