Video: Can sex addicts be involved in loving relationships?
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Marc F. Kern
Marc F. Kern, Ph.D., has over 30 years of clinical psychotherapy experience helping people overcome their self-defeating habits and acquire the insights and skills to live happier lives. He has a deep personal understanding of the addictive process and continues his lifelong research of contemporary treatments for addiction and other destructive behaviors.
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By Marc F. Kern
Published on 04/18/2008
It's my experience that true sex addicts, love addicts, do not have the tools to have healthy, ongoing, ebb and flow relationships.
They're very rocky and their preoccupations are such that it's difficult to manage the normal ebb and flow of a relationship. So they don't seem to have casual relationships or casual partners.
They explode rather quickly; they go through many relationship in a rather short period of time because they're trying to go about it, to bring about the act with too much pressure to really negotiate the difficult -- to have an intimate relationship with someone. A healthy relationship.
It's my experience that true sex addicts, love addicts, do not have the
tools to have healthy, ongoing, ebb and flow relationships.
It's my experience that true sex addicts, love addicts, do not have the tools to have healthy, ongoing, ebb and flow relationships.
They're very rocky and their preoccupations are such that it's difficult to manage the normal ebb and flow of a relationship. So they don't seem to have casual relationships or casual partners.
They explode rather quickly; they go through many relationship in a rather short period of time because they're trying to go about it, to bring about the act with too much pressure to really negotiate the difficult -- to have an intimate relationship with someone. A healthy relationship.