Suspicious

During the first few years of my husband's sexual addiction, I was certain we were the ONLY ones on the planet dealing with such a horrific and embarrassing problem.

Then I attended one PASG meeting and ran into someone from our ward and met no less than 15 women in my area dealing with the same thing. Then I talked to Husband and learned that the men's side of PASG was so large that they split into 2 and sometimes 3 groups. And these are just the people attending PASG.

Now it's been a few years and I am having a hard time finding anybody who I think is not dealing with sexual addiction and pornography.

Of course most people don't go around with a sign on their shirt saying "my husband is a porn addict" (although if they did I think we'd all be surprised...) but I see and hear signs that make me think people I love (or even just know) are dealing with it.

Every comment somebody makes about "having a hard time right now" = porn addiciton. Every time someone says they saw something weird on their credit but it was just fraud makes me think = LYING HUSBAND! Every time I hear of someone's marriage ending I'm confident that it is because of porn. Every unexplained negative situation leads to sexual addiction SOMEhow.

I'm just beginning to stop blaming the addiction for all of the horrible things in my own life, so maybe once I have that under control I can stop blaming addiction for all of the bad things in everybody else's life too.

Are you/did you go through a period when you were suddenly suspicious of everybody around you?