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Posted: Fri Apr 23rd, 2010 05:55 pm |
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If so please let me know..
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Posted: Fri Apr 23rd, 2010 09:53 pm |
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I don't have info on Strength in Numbers groups, but if you're open to 12-step programs for partners (sort of like Alanon for partners of alcoholics),
COSA lists a meeting in the Orlando area,
http://cosa-recovery.org/face2face.html
COSLAA lists a meeting in Tampa,
http://www.coslaa.org/meetings/
Ah, and Bingo! S-Anon lists a meeting in Daytona, along with a bunch of others in Florida,
http://sanon.org/MeetingsUSFL.htm
(If you're still getting oriented, there are several different fellowships for sex addicts, all similar but started around the same time in different places: Sex Addicts Anonymous, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, Sexaholics Anonymous, Sexual Compulsives Anonymous. Matching these, there are several different fellowships for spouses.)
I'm an addict, not a partner, and I live 1000 miles from Florida, so I have no direct info on any of these meetings. They might be places to start where you could meet with other women in situations like yours.
Tim M.
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Posted: Mon Apr 26th, 2010 02:44 pm |
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Thank you Tim........ For years my husband has said that he would seek help but has not done so. He believes he can fight this thing on his own. That is until he has a re-lapse :-( I will print this out for him and see what he decides to do. I am afraid his feelings of shame & guilt are what stop him from seeking further help...... and allowing others to know that he has a problem.
Many blessings to you............
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Posted: Mon Apr 26th, 2010 03:00 pm |
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You're looking for groups for your husband? I thought you were looking for groups for yourself. The meetings I found won't be useful for him.
Addicts always believe we can fight this by ourselves. It isn't true, in my opinion. Not for any of us who are real addicts. There is also much professional agreement on this point.
When he's ready to look for meetings for himself, the places to start for `12-step meetings would be
http://sa.org/
http://sexaa.org/
http://slaafws.org/
http://sca-recovery.org/
All these sites for the 4 sex addiction 12-step fellowships have links to find local meetings. There are also telephone and chat and Skype meetings, so even if there isn't anything local, there are always meetings, every day, many times, that any addict can attend. Given the number of S-Anon meetings in your area, the first link, to Sexaholics Anonymous, is the most likely to yield results; but it's worth trying all 4.
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Posted: Mon Apr 26th, 2010 09:37 pm |
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Following up on this,
In meetings for addicts themselves, not partners,
SA lists 20 meetings in Florida, including 1 in Daytona Beach.
http://sa.org/top/United%20States%20of%20America/Florida/
SAA has many more meetings than that, but it looks like the closest to you would be Lake Mary. Others that aren't much farther than I have to drive to meetings would be in Winter Park, Apopka, Kissimmee, Orlando, and Palm Bay.
http://sexaa.org/Meetings/UnitedStates/meeting.php?state=FL
SLAA doesn't seem to have anything closer than Tampa Bay.
http://www.localslaa.org/node/7
Local churches and mental health clearinghouses may well know about meetings not on the Internet lists. Even if for some reason the Daytona Beach SA meeting isn't a good fit, the people there would likely know where other local meetings are.
Again, there are phone and chat and skype meetings for all these fellowships, too.
Walking through the door into a 12-step meeting for sex addicts is a pretty heavy thing to do. Everybody in those rooms has done it, though. We know what the shame and guilt and isolation feel like. I certainly lived it for 3 or 4 decades before getting desperate enough to seek help.
When you do make it through the door, it turns out you've found your way home.
Tim M.
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