Ex-Fiancee Shares Sex Addict's Web of Deceit

Dear Harlan,

Your response to the wife who was concerned about her husband's porn addiction was lacking some very important information. Has she looked at what he has been viewing and the sites that he goes to? I was oblivious to the things that were on the Internet until I started paying closer attention to what my ex-fiance was Googling. I, too, was OK with him looking at adult sites until I found out that he had several relationships with women whom he would spend hours chatting with (webcams on, clothes off). One of them was his ex-wife. He put up several profiles on adult Web sites looking for sex. One thing he would do was quickly close the screen when I entered the room. He would delete history items and had secret e-mail accounts. He would wake up in the middle of the night to go on the computer while I was asleep to get his "fix" of porn. His sex addiction hurt me more than he will ever know.

Wife Who Knows

Dear Wife,

I'm so sorry you were hurt so badly. Secret passwords, secret e-mail addresses, limiting a partner's access to a computer, locking the door while online - these are all signs something might be up. That said, before investigating what a partner is Googling and ogling online, there's something to be said about having good reason to track his moves. To secretly investigate for no good reason is no good reason. Clearly, you had good reason.

 

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