Reddit reviews Your Sexually Addicted Spouse: How Partners Can Cope and Heal
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Sex addiction is one of the hard things to deal with. I have a highly addictive personality and my Therapist who also happened to be a CSAT helped me get into recovery. However I have found that as long as I am in recovery I don't get pulled into the sexual addiction, so that AA and NA meetings and working those programs the by product of that is my SA gets treated at the same time.
However one of the things I have noticed in SA is the tendency to diagnose the spouse as a co-addict, and I shy away from that because that is painting the spouses of SA with a wide brush.
I have heard good things about this book, which is written for spouses of SA.
https://www.amazon.com/Your-Sexually-Addicted-Spouse-Partners/dp/0882823094/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Hang in there.
This is quite common in people who have had relationships as yours, most specifically ones who had trauma in their childhoods. If you were abused as a kid, abandoned, etc... That kind of thing will really throw you into an area that is definitely trauma related. I highly recommend this book, as does my own trauma recovery therapist. Good luck to you.
EDIT: If you want to find a therapist specialized in this, I would recommend finding one that is CSAT certified to help partners of sex addicts. This doesn't diagnose her as an addict. It finds treatment geared toward what you're doing through, though. Some main authorities on this subject are Patrick Carnes and Douglas Weiss, and they help certify folks.