This is a Serious Issue that I live with.

A new Blog-

www.frumsexaddictswives.blogspot.com/

I have been married to a recovering sex addict for about 7 months now. My husband is a Frum guy for 10 years, who has been successful in his sex addict recovery program for now 3 and 1/2 years now, B"H and may he continue in good health. I will be writing more later, I am just starting out now. I'll tell you that I am in my early 30's , second time married and my husband is going to be 40, 3rd marriage but was not in any recovery till the end of his last marriage. He has twin boys from his 2nd marriage and we are together going IVF process next month. We both moved from the midwest, he moved out here with his 2nd wife and we are staying here do to his kids. I grew up in a midwest college town and then after my divorce 10 years ago, I moved to the motor city area and became frum in 2004, left the Motown area in May 2009. I met my currant husband " LostBoy" on a Jewish dating website about 13 months ago and we were marrid May 2009. We live in the Pacific Northwest. I will go into our story more later. The reason I started this blog is to connect with other frum women who are going though what I am being married to a Sex Addict. I am in a support group of about 8 partners/family members of SA. I enjoy the group but have a need to connect with frum women. I talked to my husband and I am posting his blog URL up to help you and your husbands. May, I continue to write this with my feelings around living with a sex addict, and going though IVF, and being away from the midwest.

www.livingsobriety.blogspot.com/

Kol Tov!

Welcome to our community! Would you like me to start a special board on our forum for the wives of addicts to give each other support? (Would you post there if I did that, or are you gonna post only on the blog sites you specified?)

By the way, see the bottom half of this page on our site, which deals with questions posed by women married to addicts.

See also this page of our FAQ, which has some great links on it to letters written by wives of addicts, or letters written TO wives of addicts, etc...

guardureyes wrote on 14 Dec 2009 23:58:


Frum SA Wife,

I think it would be great if you take up Guard's offer here.  The issue of wife support comes up alot here.  You could join up with an already established and successful board instead of starting from scratch.

Especially if we're all under the same framework I think it would be a lot easier for our wives to appreciate and understand what we're going through, and then vice-versa.