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		<title>Still here &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2018 16:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just a note to say that I&#8217;m still here, still doing well and although I&#8217;m no longer attending 12 step meetings, I&#8217;m still living life one day at a time. Best wishes to you all.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Maybe I’m Regaining a Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2018 21:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been listening to a lot of Jordan B. Peterson lately and I might be regaining a religion. Here&#8217;s the Youtube link if you want to hear: Sam Harris and Jordan B. Peterson Conversation]]></description>
		
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		<title>My next post will be about losing my religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2018 01:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>I had a dream of days gone by</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2018 18:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been reading Jordan Peterson&#8217;s 12 Rules for Life. I was initially interested in him because it&#8217;s really unusual to have a professor argue against inclusive language. So I googled and watched a few of his videos online. In fact, this man is not transphobic. He&#8217;s smart, and his arguments make sense.&#160; Here&#8217;s what [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Surviving Survival</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2017 21:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I really like the books Laurence Gonzales has written about survival. I’ve just read the most recent, which is all about human resilience after traumatic events. What was healing for me in reading this book is the realization, backed by science, that surviving trauma is not easy. In fact, some of the very things that our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2016 13:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I started this blog I was angry that there weren&#8217;t any current blogs written by sex addicts. It seemed like people blogged for awhile and then just quit. What the heck? Did they get better? Were they cured? Or did they stop going to meetings and die? At that time, I was scared to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ten Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2016 13:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, I was a mess. My recent conversion to Catholicism had not gone well because all these weird problems with masturbation had come up (it&#8217;s a sin for Catholics to masturbate &#8211; and I was trying hard not to sin). My marriage was on the rocks because my husband thought I might be [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 02:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; After so many years of having this blog, the number one search term is still a variation on how to have sex with my therapist. &#160; For heaven&#8217;s sake. It is &#160;NEVER healthy to have sex with your therapist. NEVER. It will always damage you, always have an icky taint of incest, and always [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Crying and sobriety</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I had been sober from 7/6/06, the day I entered treatment until 1/17/11. That&#8217;s 4 years, 6 months, and 12 days. Sobriety for me then was no contact (including googling him) with my former therapist, a priest who was also a psychoanalyst. Also no masturbation, no Internet porn, no sex outside my marriage, including phone [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>That (other) time I cried really hard</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[*I was writing a about crying really hard when my son was ill and veered off on a tangent about the other time I’d cried that hard, which was supposed to be a line or two, but the words wouldn’t stop coming so I posted that separately and came back to my original topic today, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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