A big Thank You to all…
One year ago today, Christina suggested that I start a blog to talk about my battle to fight my sex addiction. I took up her suggestion, and a year later here I am, my blog is alive and kicking and its been viewed nearly 16,000 times. Looking back at my past posts its interesting to see how I have evolved in the past year, how my writing has changed as my recovery entered different phases.
This blog has provided tremendous aid in my quest for recovery and I am happy to see that I am also helping many other people. I really want to thank all you out there who regularly read and contribute to my blog, as well as to all those of you who have placed links on your blogs/ websites.
Special thanks to Christina, SAWife, Kellee, A year and counting, Rae, Banana, Charlotte’s web, Mary MPJ, Peridot, Scribbling Mum, Gentle Path, Aneris, pornaddict, straggler, Talie, Adam, Ken, Matt Addict and many others… . All you have kept this blog alive with your comments, interesting contributions and provocative questions. I am sorry if I forgot some of you!
I really enjoy looking at this blog’s statistics and trying to understand how people find my blog, and what interests people the most. For example did you know that my top referrer is Rae from Raes Confessions? Also that my most read post was about the death of a Greek TV actor who paid his sex addiction with his life? (Of course officially no-one mentioned his sex addiction, just that he was assassinated by some gay immigrant). Lots of people stumbled across my blog looking for details of his story.
When people find my blog through sex engines, apart from the predictable search terms like “sex, addict, addiction, partner etc” I also got 70 hits from people who clicked on the tag prostitute (I guess they were seeking out other information). Also people typing in entries like “prostitute in Athens” or “massage Athens” are not uncommon. I hope that at least some of these people devoted a few minutes to my blog before they proceeded to find what they were looking for in the first place.
Finally, for those of who you who are interested how it all started here go my first three posts:
http://sexaddiction.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/hello-world/
http://sexaddiction.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/i-decided-to-face-my-problem/
Congratulations on one year! Your blog has been very important to me. It has helped tremendously to hear a RECOVERING addict’s point of view. I appreciate so much your honesty and how you’ve just laid it all out on the table, without all the bullshit and excuses and justifications. I have found hope here…that a sex addict can find recovery and live an honest life. I am amazed that you have done this without a step program. Sounds like you have a support system, which is crucial. My husband also just celebrated his first year of sobriety. I see many remarkable changes in him. One day at a time.
Hi there. I started to read your blog like 4 weeks ago not long from after I found out my husband’s hooker addiction.
I wanted to talk to somebody, somebody who has the same problem so may be I can get into know more about my husband’s problem. I also wanna get a 3rd party’s opinion about what my husband told me, I worry he still fool on me.
However, I do not feel comfortable to talk all my problem over the internet just now. If it’s possible, could we exchange email address please?
I appecaite any of your input.
I’m humbled and appreciate the mention! I don’t feel like I’ve commented very much over the past year, although I’ve read every post in my rss reader!
You’ve inspired me to write a similar post; I’m also fascinated by my blogs stats. I’m compulsively checking my google analytics account!
@aster
of course we can talk. Feel free to email me at exaddict76@yahoo.com
@Ken
You are right about compulsively checking the blog stats. Lets just make sure we don’t acquire a new addiction of checking our stats all the time
Hi there. I’m from the Philippines. I feel like I am falling into an addiction even though I still am 21. I went through your blog entries and I want to start the change as well. I hope we could speak to each other.
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Glad to read that you have recognized this at age 21. I became an addict at age 19, 22 years ago. Had I taken notice of my addiction 22 years ago and taken action, my life would be much better now and I’d have a lot more money in the bank. Keep going
Hey, I dont know if it will help anyone, but I found these guys in the UK who helped me lose my escort addiction.. http://www.no-more-escorts.com . They use hypnosis, and the effects were really quick and it was very easy just listening to some sessions that I downloaded from their website.
good luck everyone….Pete