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When addiction recovery requires sexual abstinence

My partner and I are both recovering addicts and our sponsor suggested avoiding sex for the first year but we are struggling with what feels like another thing we cannot have.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Multiple simultaneous deprivations in recovery can feel punitive rather than healing, testing commitment to sobriety against human need for connection.

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