Pure Life Alliance

Hope

The first thing to know is that there is hope of healing. While it may feel as if you are alone, and there is no one going through what you are going through, others in similar circumstances have found healing! Women who attend our supportive Hidden Hurt groups [insert link] have found hope and healing. Many marriages have not only survived, but gone on to thrive like never before.

Not a Quick Fix

But healing is not a short process. Men who are sex addicts do not change overnight or even over several months. It takes a long-term commitment for men to gain true victory and marriages to experience true healing. We have heard and seen many success stories, but generally only from those who commit themselves to recovery over the long haul.

Support Groups

Hidden Hurt (HH) - Pure Life Alliance offers support groups for wives, ex-wives and girlfriends of sex addicts. Anyone with a partner in a FMO group would benefit from being a part of a Hidden Hurt group. Hidden Hurt will offer hope, help and healing to women even if their partners do not seek help or do not change.

To learn more about our women's spouses of addicts support group, see HH.

For Men Only (FMO) - Pure Life Alliance offers support groups for men teaching about the addiction cycle as it relates to sex addiction and assisting recovering addicts in creating tools for preventing relapse and building an accountability network. Even if a man is seeing a counselor, the importance of attending a support group for sex addiction is critical.

To learn more about our men's support groups, see FMO.

Counseling or Therapy

Often one-on-one counseling is very valuable in working through issues brought on by a difficult childhood or past abuse. A support group can provide basic information and accountability, but may not be able to help with some deeper or more complex issues. Pure Life Alliance has a list of recommended treatment providers in the Portland, Oregon area on this website. It is important that you find a therapist who is knowledgeable in dealing with families affected by sexual addiction.

To learn more about finding a good counselor, see Finding a Good Counselor.