The Damage Done when we use Sex the Same Way we use Booze.

Last week, I published this article about the damage alcoholic sex does to monogamous, faithful marriages.

This is a topic I’ve written about in the past and received great interest in from readers (lots of reads, likes, and shares).

Through the blessed support of readers, I’ve been fortunate to win the weekly Elephant Journal ecoscore top prize several times discussing aspects of this topic, so I was surprised when this particular article fell flat. It has almost 8,000 reads in the first week, but the shares and likes are unexpectedly low, and it has relatively few comments.

On Friday, I sent an email to the subscribers of my blog asking why they thought the article died. Thousands of people received my plea for help, and I was overwhelmed by the response. Between reply emails, phone calls, texts, and a few live conversations, I now see that I made a huge mistake. I’m so thankful to my readers for explaining why I was so wrong, and I’m glad you’re reading this so I can clean up the mess I made.

In the article from last week (linked at the top of this article), I described my greedy, selfish, needy, and loveless sexual advances on my wife when I was in active alcoholism. I used an inappropriate term…