Sex addiction is a topic that millions of men and women deal with. However, there is much confusion over what it is and those who are attributed to it. In this video, Dr. Doug Weiss, discusses common myths about sex addiction.

From whether sex addiction actually exists to whether can it be cured, Doug sheds light on the questions people have had regarding it. Only by knowing more about the truths regarding this issue can one know how heal and overcome it.

Doug Weiss, Ph.D., is a nationally known author, speaker and licensed psychologist. He is the executive director of Heart to Heart Counseling Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the author of several books including, “Partner Betrayal Trauma™”.

Need help with sex addiction? Visit the Heart to Heart Counseling Center website at www.drdougweiss.com | www.sexaddict.com or call us at 719-278-3708.

For more information on Partner Betrayal Trauma®, go to https://partnerbetrayaltrauma.org/

For the Partners Healing From His Addiction, visit: https://www.drdougweiss.com/product/partners-healing-book/

For more information on Intimacy Anorexia, go to:

www.intimacyanorexia.com

You can join our Facebook recovery groups as well:

https://partnerbetrayaltrauma.org/partner-betrayal-trauma-support-groups/

Or go to https://www.drdougweiss.com/facebook-groups/#mens_partner_of_sex_addicts_group for more information.

For information on marriage counseling and intensives, go to https://www.drdougweiss.com/counseling/

For a full list of Dr. Doug’s products, go to https://www.drdougweiss.com/store/

You may contact Dr. Weiss via his website, https://www.drdougweiss.com/ or on his Facebook https://www.facebook.com/drdougweiss/

by phone at 719-278-3708

or through email at [email protected].

Dr. Doug Weiss has been free from sex addiction and has helped thousands to do so as well over the past 30 years. In this video, Dr. Weiss discusses common signs that indicate your spouse is watching porn.

The way they act during your time of intimacy is a huge indicator. Asking for things in sex that you’re uncomfortable with or that’s way out of the norm might suggest that they’re attaching to a certain behavior in the porn world and is trying to act it out with you.

Your spouse using dirty and vulgar language during intimacy (instead of warm and relational words) that you wouldn’t say to someone you like, could indicate that they heard these things in pornography and experimenting with it.

If they overreact and are irrational with you when you politely decline from sex (once in a while, when you’re not in the mood for it that night), there may be pornography in the background.

Performance issues can occur from porn use due to them not having to exercise relational skills and effort as much.

Being disconnected during sex, leaving you alone, empty, and used while they’re mentally in the porn world, is another sign.

If they’re protecting their phone or computer and you can’t get into where they’ve been, they are definitely protecting something.

Ask the questions. If you’re in a significant relationship or married, it’s ok for you to ask them if they’re looking at pornography. These common signs apply to both men and women.

Our heart is to see the two of you healed, have a great relationship, and have the best sex ever.

Doug Weiss, Ph.D., is a nationally known author, speaker and licensed psychologist. He is the executive director of Heart to Heart Counseling Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the author of several books including, “Partner Betrayal Trauma™”.

For more information on Partner Betrayal Trauma®, go to https://partnerbetrayaltrauma.org/

For more information on Sex Addiction, go to www.sexaddict.com

For information on marriage counseling and intensives, go to https://www.drdougweiss.com/counseling/

For a full list of Dr. Doug’s products, go to https://www.drdougweiss.com/store/

You may contact Dr. Weiss via his website, https://www.drdougweiss.com/ or on his Facebook https://www.facebook.com/drdougweiss/

by phone at 719-278-3708

or through email at [email protected].

In this video, Dr. Doug Weiss, licensed psychologist and speaker that has helped thousands of marriages heal after infidelity, discusses three basic principles on how to save a marriage after infidelity.

After an affair you may wonder if you can save your marriage. Ultimately, you can only do what you can do. It’s up to your spouse if they want to stay or not.

In restoring a broken marriage, here’s what you can do:

1. You must take full responsibility without blaming your spouse. The choice was yours whether due to weakness of character, opportunity, sexual addiction, etc. There were many options you could have taken from getting help from counseling to getting a divorce if you were unhappy. Your spouse is not responsible for your choice. You made that choice yourself.

2. Break off all ties and connections with the affair partner or people. Shut the things down that led you down that road and be accountable to do that.

3. Be open to taking a polygraph. This allows the spouse to know that they know the truth and can build back trust with facts. Having a measure that shows you’re telling the truth and a plan on how to deal with the root causes of the poor decisions you made, they will be reasonable and more likely to continue the marriage based on those circumstances.

You can’t just admit the affair and tell them to get over it. That will make it harder to clean up.

These are just a few basic principles but at Heart to Heart Counseling Center, we have much more information and resources that can aid in the recovery.

The decision to continue the marriage is up to your spouse. If they choose not to, there’s nothing you can do. However, if there’s a chance, and if you give them a reasonable plan and the protection of a polygraph so there’s no secret world, you might be able to save your marriage.

Doug Weiss, Ph.D., is a nationally known author, speaker and licensed psychologist. He is the executive director of Heart to Heart Counseling Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the author of several books including, “Partner Betrayal Trauma™”.

For more information on Partner Betrayal Trauma®, go to https://partnerbetrayaltrauma.org/

For the Partner Betrayal Trauma DVD, visit: https://www.drdougweiss.com/product/partner-betrayal-trauma-dvd/

For the Partner Betrayal Trauma book, visit:

https://www.drdougweiss.com/product/partner-betrayal-trauma-book/

For the Helping Her Heal, DVD, visit: https://www.drdougweiss.com/product/helping-her-heal-dvd/

For information on marriage counseling and intensives, go to https://www.drdougweiss.com/counseling/

For a full list of Dr. Doug’s products, go to https://www.drdougweiss.com/store/

For more information on Sex Addiction, go to www.sexaddict.com

You may contact Dr. Weiss via his website, https://www.drdougweiss.com/ or on his Facebook https://www.facebook.com/drdougweiss/

by phone at 719-278-3708

or through email at [email protected].

Porn Can Ruin Your Marriage (3 ways) | The Effects of Your Spouse’s Porn Use | Dr. Doug Weiss

It’s not your fault that your spouse uses porn. That is a decision they chose to make. The use of porn in a marriage, however, can severely impact and even damage it in several ways.

1. It creates secrecy. Any kind of secrecy from financial to social hurts the trust and intimacy in a relationship. Your spouse didn’t trust you with their porn secret and what their true thoughts and feelings about sexuality and sensuality. Their secret world creates distance between the two of you, especially if you’ve talked about it and they’re still choosing to maintain it. Their choice to protect and put the secrecy of their porn use over your marriage is harmful to the both of you.

2. It’s seductive. Porn gives a lot of manufactured and unrealistic ideas and situations that when reinforced through masturbation and ejaculation, creates a chemical addiction in the brain. It seduces a person into more and more different kinds of activities that can lead to strip clubs, hook up sites, prostitution, etc. Not everyone does this, but the repetition and growth of porn use can blow up into infidelity and sexual addiction by the time you find out. This can hurt you and cause intimacy anorexia (lack of intimacy), negatively impacting your relationship.

3. Porn use affects their personality. Addictions of any type keep one immature and self centered. That immaturity affects the entire marriage, how they parent, make financial decisions, choose friends based on their maturity, etc.

We have many resources that can help both men and women who struggle with this. However, it’s their choice if they want to take the next step to recovery. You can call and ask for help, get guidance, and get healing from the way pornography has impacted you physically, mentally, emotionally, and spirituality.

Pornography can impact your marriage in more than the 3 ways listed. But these 3 ways can be the beginning of having that conversation.

Doug Weiss, Ph.D., is a nationally known author, speaker and licensed psychologist. He is the executive director of Heart to Heart Counseling Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the author of several books including, “Partner Betrayal Trauma™”.

For more information on Partner Betrayal Trauma®, go to https://partnerbetrayaltrauma.org/

For the Partners Healing From His Addiction, visit: https://www.drdougweiss.com/product/partners-healing-book/

For more information on Sex Addiction, go to www.sexaddict.com

For information on marriage counseling and intensives, go to https://www.drdougweiss.com/counseling/

For a full list of Dr. Doug’s products, go to https://www.drdougweiss.com/store/

You may contact Dr. Weiss via his website, https://www.drdougweiss.com/ or on his Facebook https://www.facebook.com/drdougweiss/

by phone at 719-278-3708

or through email at [email protected].

In this video, Dr. Doug Weiss discusses the effects from the trauma of infidelity and the need for healing through it.

Doug Weiss, Ph.D., is a nationally known author, speaker and licensed psychologist. He is the executive director of Heart to Heart Counseling Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the author of several books including, “Partner Betrayal Trauma™”.

For more information on Partner Betrayal Trauma®, go to https://partnerbetrayaltrauma.org/

For the book, Partner Betrayal Trauma, visit:

https://www.drdougweiss.com/product/partner-betrayal-trauma-book/

If you are a spouse of infidelity, your husband or wife has cheated on you and you are in a lot of pain. Anger, betrayal, sorrow, hurt, and confusion are just a few of the emotions swirling through your mind. Whether a business manager or stay at home, the trauma of infidelity affects people in similar ways.

The trauma of infidelity causes pain but it can also affect you in several other ways:

1. It can cause you to reevaluate whether to trust or mistrust your spouse and other people in your life.

2. You can have PTSD due to your marriage being threatened. Having dreams and mental images about the incident, intrusive thoughts, self-isolation, and other negatives impacts.

3. Depression is another result. You can have trouble sleeping, difficulty concentrating, and feel worthless.

4. Finally, your body can be affected as well. Weight gain, headaches, dizziness, stomaches, and hormone imbalance are just a few symptoms.

Your betrayal is real. Your trauma from the betrayal of your partner is very real. It is not just real personally but also real statistically. You’re not the same person before and after trauma. You have been impacted significantly. Infidelity can negatively affect your life physically, emotionally, spiritually, financially, and even in your relationships. If left unchecked, it can potentially destroy them.

You may have been negatively impacted but you’re responsible for your healing. Your husband or wife can’t heal you. Even if they never cheat again, you still have the wound of the trauma.

Your partner betrayal trauma is unique to you and your journey to heal will be unique as well. We have tests, three- and five-day intensives, phone counseling, phone groups, books, DVDs, and other resources to help you reclaim your life back. You can join our Facebook recovery groups as well:

https://partnerbetrayaltrauma.org/partner-betrayal-trauma-support-groups/

You are worth recovery and healing for yourself. Take your time and go through what is offered here for you to heal and reclaim your life.

You may contact Dr. Weiss via his website, https://www.drdougweiss.com/ or on his Facebook https://www.facebook.com/drdougweiss/

by phone at 719-278-3708

or through email at [email protected].

Intimacy Anorexia is a real issue that many couples are dealing with. It is the act of withholding spiritual, emotional, and sexual intimacy from your spouse.

The characteristics of an intimacy anorexic include being too busy, blaming their spouse frequently, withholding love, withholding praise, withholding sex, and them feeling more like a roommate than a loved one to the spouse.

If you are experiencing this, you are the spouse of an Intimacy Anorexic and are dealing with real pain and trauma from the lack of love and intimacy. The trauma of being married to an IA is the same as those who experience infidelity and sex addiction. Being subjected to negative memories and thoughts, feeling isolated and depressed, and lack of sex is quite degrading.

Visit https://intimacyanorexia.com/ for more information.

However, you are not alone in your struggle. For over 30 years, Dr. Doug Weiss has been helping thousands of men and women heal and break free from the effects of intimacy anorexia. We have many different resources to help including books, DVDs, support groups, and counselors that can help you.

If you are the spouse of an IA, it’s not your fault and are not responsible for the way they are. But you are responsible to start moving towards healing for yourself.

Also, we have a test you can take to determine if Intimacy Anorexia® is the issue in your marriage. Take the test here:

https://intimacyanorexia.com/ia-test/

Sexless and Married: https://www.drdougweiss.com/product/sexless-married-dvd/

Married & Alone support group for female partners of male Intimacy Anorexics:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/MarriedandAlone/

Married & Alone support group for male partners of female Intimacy Anorexics:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/supportgroupSAIA/

For more information on Intimacy Anorexia, go to:

www.intimacyanorexia.com

Doug Weiss, Ph.D., is a nationally known author, speaker and licensed psychologist. He is the executive director of Heart to Heart Counseling Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the author of several books including, Partner Betrayal Trauma ™.

You may contact Dr. Weiss via his website, www.drdougweiss.com or on his Facebook https://www.facebook.com/drdougweiss/

by phone at 719-278-3708

or through email at [email protected].

Dr. Weiss has been dealing with sex addicts, intimacy anorexia, and hurting spouses for over 30 years. Many of them have experienced significant trauma, whether in the past or currently in their marriages. This trauma affects all parts of the body, including the brain. When the brain gets traumatized, it can either freeze up or get locked in a hyper-vigilant fear state, resulting in poor functionality in life that is unhealthy for the person.

Cereset is an organization that has spent $50 million on non-invasive neuromodulation research and technology that is designed to help restabilize the brain. By resetting and re-optimizing the brain, it is able to heal itself for better relaxation and performance in dealing with the events in life.

The process is simple with no outside intervention, therapy, or medication of any kind. The brain restores itself while the client naps or relaxes in a comfortable chair. Many men and women have added this to their intensives or taken the session separately, and by the end of the 5 day process, they have changed for the better, with restored balance to their brains. Using Cereset can help with many issues and conditions, including PTSD, depression, poor sleep, and anxiety.

As the command center, your brain controls everything. When it becomes out of balance or stuck, the result is you not feeling right and unable to function at the highest level. The Cereset system is a proven, non-invasive technology that effectively helps your brain free itself, empowering you to reach greater levels of well-being, rationality, and balance in your life. To better manage stress and pain, improve thinking, restore hope, and achieve restful sleep, a simple process is all it takes.

For more information, contact us at Heart To Heart Counseling by calling us at 719-278-3708, or send an email to [email protected].

Restore your brain today!

Losing your job because of porn can be devastating. However, despite the fact that you're dealing with the consequences of your decisions, it's not the end. This can be the turning point and the path to a better life.

You can choose to be in denial, to be bitter and vindictive. Or, you can choose to take full responsibility over what happened. This is the opportunity to grow up and evaluate this sex addiction and how much it's affecting your life.

How you make decisions? How do you want your future to look? Who are you, what are you doing with your life, and is this the direction you want to go?

Millions of people have struggled with sexual addictions in life. However, many of them have taken the right steps to break free and live better lifestyles. They sought the necessary counselors and resources that were able to help them change.

You may have wrought the hard consequences of your past decisions, but you can bring healing and prosperity instead. By taking the steps to discover what's wrong and make it right, you can become more mature and successful in life.

No matter how bad your day is, you don't have to have another.

For more information on Sex Addiction, go to www.sexaddict.com

For information on marriage counseling and intensives, go to https://www.drdougweiss.com/counseling/

For more information on Partner Betrayal Trauma®, go to https://partnerbetrayaltrauma.org/

You are worth recovery and healing for yourself. Take your time and go through what is offered here for you to heal and reclaim your life.

Doug Weiss, Ph.D., is a nationally known author, speaker and licensed psychologist. He is the executive director of Heart to Heart Counseling Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the author of several books including, “Partner Betrayal Trauma™”.

For information on marriage counseling and intensives, go to https://www.drdougweiss.com/counseling/

For a full list of Dr. Doug’s products, go to https://www.drdougweiss.com/store/

You may contact Dr. Weiss via his website, www.drdougweiss.com or on his Facebook https://www.facebook.com/drdougweiss/

by phone at 719-278-3708

or through email at [email protected].

Order your copy of the Sin of Withholding: https://www.drdougweiss.com/product/sin-of-withholding-dvd/

Dr. Doug Weiss has been helping couples deal with relationship issues for over 30 years. In this video, he reveals the Sin of Withholding DVD.

There is a pattern of sin, the sin of withholding, that has seldom been spoken about and mostly unheard of. In the Sin of Withholding, Dr. Doug Weiss goes through this concept and how we as Christians knowingly or unknowingly participate in it. Using scripture and Jesus' teachings, Dr. Weiss explains the actions and consequences of withholding from others, as well as exposing God's heart and His reaction when it comes to those who commit this sin.

While the sin of withholding involves intimacy anorexia (actively withholding emotionally, spiritually, and sexually from your spouse) it runs much deeper, as it affects and hurts those around you. The sin of withholding begins and takes place in the heart. However the heart can be changed so you can walk out of this sin and be free from it.

The revelation this DVD gives is a teaching where once you know it, you can see if you or someone in your life or relationship is participating in the sin of withholding, and respond accordingly. Once free from this sin, the fruits of the Spirit can freely grow and produce in your life, helping you to be more kind and openhearted, allowing for better connections and relationships.

A great series for individuals, couples, and bible studies to go through as it gives a biblical background on the sin of withholding and helps to explain why this sin occurs, the pain of it, and how to be free from it.

The Sin of Withholding is often undetected and not preached about, but it is responded to by God in a consistent and firm manner. This DVD is the first to address the Biblical foundation of the sin of withholding in believers’ hearts. The practical application in marriage addressing Intimacy Anorexia is also interwoven in this revelational teaching on the Sin of Withholding. Once a believer is free of this sin, their walk with the Lord and their fruit towards others can increase expediently.

DVD is projected to be available and shipped August 3rd, 2020.

Doug Weiss, Ph.D., is a nationally known author, speaker and licensed psychologist. He is the executive director of Heart to Heart Counseling Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the author of several books including, Partner Betrayal Trauma ™.

You may contact Dr. Weiss via his website, https://www.drdougweiss.com/ or on his Facebook https://www.facebook.com/drdougweiss/

by phone at 719-278-3708

or through email at [email protected]

Buy the DVD here: https://www.drdougweiss.com/product/pain-for-love-dvd/

Inside of a marriage that deals with intimacy anorexia, there is a vicious cycle that can go on for decades before being recognized. This DVD explains the cycle of pain for love, in which the spouse goes through periods of pain due to lack of love and intimacy in a relationship. They continue to feel alone, more like a roommate, and have to hit the breaking point again and again just to receive a little love from their significant other.

If this sounds familiar, Pain For Love will revolutionize the way you see what's going on in your marriage. Hurt spouse will have the right lens to see this dynamic and can make the right decisions accordingly. For those who cause this cycle, they have the opportunity to change and make the effort to stop this all together.

Pain For Love describes in detail one of the most insidious strategies of an intimacy anorexic with their spouse. Dr. Weiss exposes the intentionality of maintaining a pain exchange for a spouse to receive love from the intimacy anorexic. This dynamic is experienced by many who are married to an intimacy anorexic. This paradigm can empower the spouse and help them stop participating in a pain for love dynamic in their marriage.

Doug Weiss, Ph.D., is a nationally known author, speaker and licensed psychologist. He is the executive director of Heart to Heart Counseling Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the author of several books including "Intimacy Anorexia®."

You may contact Dr. Weiss via his website, https://www.drdougweiss.com/ or on his Facebook https://www.facebook.com/drdougweiss/

by phone at 719-278-3708

or through email at [email protected]