We use sex and emotional involvement to manipulate and control others.Ĩ. We use sex or emotional dependence as substitutes for nurturing, care, and support.ħ. We sexualize stress, guilt, loneliness, anger, shame, fear and envy. Even though we fear intimacy and commitment, we continually search for relationships and sexual contacts.Ħ. We feel empty and incomplete when we are alone. We confuse love with neediness, physical and sexual attraction, pity and/or the need to rescue or be rescued.ĥ. Fearing emotional and/or sexual deprivation, we compulsively pursue and involve ourselves in one relationship after another, sometimes having more than one sexual or emotional liaison at a time.Ĥ. Fearing abandonment and loneliness, we stay in and return to painful, destructive relationships, concealing our dependency needs from ourselves and others, growing more isolated and alienated from friends and loved ones, ourselves, and God.ģ. Having few healthy boundaries, we become sexually involved with and/orĮmotionally attached to people without knowing them.Ģ. as a whole from the public media.Ĭopyright 2003, by The Augustine Fellowship, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, Fellowship-Wide Services, Inc.ġ. Additionally, we try to avoid drawing undue attention to S.L.A.A. We need protect with special care the anonymity of every S.L.A.A. We find a common denominator in our obsessive/compulsive patterns which renders any personal differences of sexual or gender orientation irrelevant. We are, however, united in a common focus: dealing with our addictive sexual and emotional behavior. is not affiliated with any other organizations, movements or causes, has no opinion on outside issues, and seeks no controversy. Our developing a relationship with a Power greater than ourselves which can guide and sustain us in recovery.Īs a fellowship, S.L.A.A. community what we continue to freely receive. Our practice of the Twelve Step program of recovery to achieve sexual and emotional sobriety. Our capacity to reach out for the supportive fellowship within S.L.A.A. Our willingness to stop acting out in our own personal bottom line addictive behavior on a daily basis. To counter the destructive consequences of sex and love addiction we draw on five major resources:
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