In this episode of Recovering Us, Sandra and Dan sit down with Chris and Jennifer, a couple who have been married for 34 years and walking the road of recovery together for 32 years. Chris shares his journey of pornography and sex addiction, beginning with exposure to pornography at a young age and eventually recognizing that what he had considered a "bad habit" had become something he could not stop on his own. Jennifer shares her experience as his spouse—the shock and hurt of discovery, the challenges of repeated relapse, and her own journey toward finding her voice, setting boundaries, and developing her own recovery. Their story is not a story of instant transformation. Chris describes eighteen years of sobriety that included periods of recovery, relapse, and starting again before reaching fourteen consecutive years of sobriety. Together, they discovered that individual recovery was only part of the work. They also had to learn how to recover as a couple. The conversation explores shame, surrender, faith, twelve-step recovery, forgiveness, empathy, communication, community, and the difficult—but ultimately healing—conversations that can help couples reconnect.

From Struggling to Strong: Chris & Jennifer's Journey of Recovery, Relapse, Forgiveness, and Coupleship

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