We offer help to anyone who has a sex addiction or love addiction or both and wants to do something about it. Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, or S.L.A.A., is a Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition oriented Fellowship of men and women who help each other to stay sober. Only you can determine if you are a sex and love addict. However, if we follow a simple program which has proven successful for scores of other men and women with the same illness, we can recover. Sex addiction and love addiction, if left unchecked, always gets worse. An obsessive compulsive pattern, either sexual or emotional, or both, exists in which relationships or sexual activities have become increasingly destructive to career, family and sense of self-respect. It may take several forms-including, but not limited to a compulsive need for sex, extreme dependency on one or many people, or a chronic preoccupation with romance, intrigue, or fantasy. believe that sex and love addiction is a progressive illness which cannot be cured but which, like many illnesses, can be arrested. This group also offers online and telephone meetings.We in S.L.A.A. The Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous web site provides lists of groups meeting in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, and South America. Find a Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous Meeting Near You If the sponsor agrees, they work together on the new member's recovery. At that point, they simply approach the person with their request. Over time, newcomers to the group will find someone who they feel would be a good sponsor. The sponsor the newcomer chooses must be someone they will not act out with. This person must be someone willing to tell the newcomer when they are in denial and prepared to share their experience without telling the other person what to do. Getting a SponsorĪ sponsor is someone who has been working the 12 steps for a time and who a new member can look to for help and support. Effectiveness: Does Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous Work?įollowing the 12 steps and accepting the help and support of fellow members can help someone recover from their addiction, according to the group's literature. Members respect each other's anonymity and keep items discussed at meetings confidential. Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous provides a list of 40 questions to help someone decide whether they are an addict. Members of this group are self-diagnosed. Members learn that they are not alone and that others have successfully achieved the goal of sobriety and a better quality of life. Attending meetings often helps the addict to maintain sobriety on a daily basis. Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous is a 12-step program that works in a similar way to Alcoholics Anonymous. If the problem is not dealt with, it only gets worse.
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The person's addiction has damaged his or her life with problems of the addict's personal and professional life. It is not curable, but it can be controlled by attending meetings and working through the organization's 12 steps. This group views an addiction to sex and/or love as being a disease. All members share a desire to recover from their addiction and to live sober lives. Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous provides support to members who want to get help for an obsession with sex or sexual imagery, an unhealthy dependency on someone else, or a preoccupation with fantasy, romance, or intrigue. This group is open to people who are sex addicts, love addicts, or both. All members of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous are addicts themselves and understand what new members are going through.
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