Audience

; Esti was living the ideal life. ; A successful husband. ; A beautiful home. ; Relatively happy kids. ; Good health. ; And she was dedicated to her role as a loyal wife. It was late at night when Esti called me. I could quickly hear in her voice that she was in a state of shock like a bomb had...

Hi. I'm 15 years old and I care about Hashem a lot, but why should I stop hanging out with girls? ; GYE Answered: ; Please see page 15-16 of this booklet called "Dear Bochur". It would be better if you read from page 9 already, to understand more about the issue. And if you can read the whole t...

; I'm a wife of a sexaholic. The difficulty of being married to an ;addict ;is ;not only the acting out behavior. It also very much includes their demeanor. The demeanor I'm talking about shows itself in the addict’s inability to have a ;healthy relationship, his mean-spirited comments, lying, s...

A 14 year old boy wrote: So I started doing the TaPHSiC Method, and I ended up falling, so now I have to tell someone about the problem. I'm thinking either my dad or my Rav. What I wanted to know is how to do it. I'm sure they'd both be understanding, but I'm still not sure what to say. As you c...

; An email we received from a wife, Jan 1, 2016: My husband is in a leadership position in our community. We are currently married 20+ years. The "perfect" couple, totally "in love." In year 16, i caught him with porn. He confessed, wanted to get out, but didn’t know how to break free. He was v...

; Denial is a form of distorted thinking. In fact, it is a masterpiece of distorted thinking. Breaking through denial marks the beginning of addiction treatment. This is just as true for sexual addiction and behavioral addictions generally as it is for chemical dependency. Without treatment, the...

; I want to share something in the name of a Rabbi that my friend spoke to. I found this very inspiring: A person has two basic and opposite pulls inside of him/her: 1) Taava = wants/desire 2) Hakara = recognizing and getting close to HaShem. The Rabbi explained that Taava (pshyical desires) is ...

; Zissy's Big Book Study Group ;For Struggling Women Every Monday, 12 pm EST "How we have Recovered" - Focusing on the solution, not the problem. Zissy has been on live calls through ;saapp.org ;for a while, and has worked the steps with a sponsor. Now she wants to share what she has with other ...

Well, I am at day 36 and, thank G-d, still clean. This experience has been tremendous. For the first time in my life, I have had whom to reach out to for help: people who really understood me, having been through it themselves. Unlike speaking with a therapist, where there is the constant backgro...

Dear GYE, I don't know what my husband does or doesn't do regarding the Internet - he plays the innocent card - but I caught him watching porn several years back, and he never came clean to me, ;saying, "it's in my past, I'm doing GYE." He gets your emails but they rarely get opened. ; I'm not su...