If I Don’t Get Angry/Intense When My Partner Slips/Relapses, He Becomes Complacent! How Do I Find a Healthy Balance?
A PBSE listener describes a situation that many partners of addicts face. Here's how she describes it. See if you can relate— My partner has been in recovery for only 3 months now and it was then tha...
24 Jan 202321min
What if I Marry an Addict in Recovery and Down the Road He Stops Choosing Recovery? Is there a “Safe Zone” to Prevent This?
This episode is in response to a situation shared with us by a PBSE listener. She is currently engaged to a guy in his mind twenties who has struggled with porn addiction since age 9 or 10 and other m...
17 Jan 202329min
How do I Forgive Myself after Betraying my Wife for 18 Years?!
Here's a raw, heart-felt submission from a PBSE listener— Hello Mark and Steve, I am a recovering porn addict and the grateful husband of the listener whose question about foreboding joy you answered...
10 Jan 202329min
After Our Long Addiction and Betrayal History, We Now Live Like “Married Singles.” How Can We Get the “Chemistry & Spark” Back?
In this episode, Mark and Steve address a "couple's issue" that is unfortunately all-too-common: In the wake of addiction and betrayal trauma, the relationship grows stale, becomes ambivalent and ind...
3 Jan 202330min
Is 2023 already “Ruined” Due to His Destructive Sexual Behaviors over all the other years?!
As we look at moving into a new year, many addicts in recovery and spouses healing from betrayal trauma, wonder if their year and experience will ever be "normal" again. Will they ever be able to go t...
27 Des 202220min
How to be the proactive “Architect” of your Holidays and 2023—as opposed to the same old “Reactive Firefighter.”
If we're not mindful and proactive, addiction and betrayal trauma can turn our Holidays into constant "fires" that we run around putting out. Instead, how can we become the proactive "architects" of o...
20 Des 202224min
Does it Take a “Catastrophe” to Break Out of Addiction? And, Should I Disclose to My Partner?
We recently received a VERY raw, vulnerable and transparent communication from one of our PBSE listeners who is struggling with porn addiction and has some very pointed questions. Here are some excerp...
13 Des 202228min
How to Raise Sexually Healthy Kids and Help Those Already Struggling
Mark & Steve rarely address issues with kids and teens on PBSE podcast. However, two PBSE listeners submitted questions in this area. One is in addiction recovery and wants to know HOW to help his thr...
6 Des 202224min
