Hi everyone!  My name is Ope, and I am the husband of a sex addict.  Six months ago, my wife, Promise, left me.  Actually, it has been six months and eight long days.

I feel my life has been at a standstill ever since.  It’s not as though my life revolved around her…it’s just because I never thought that I would live without her.  I never thought that I would give up on our love.  I was sure that it was God’s will that I marry her, and that He would give me the strength to love her.  I feel like I failed both of them.

I never thought I would find myself single again, but not single…  Lonely, but still bound in love with my wife…  Still hopeful for a reconciliation, and not able to move forward, nor willing to move forward, but desperate for real love.

I’ve been coming to these meetings, hoping that one day I might see my wife.  That she would seek help, and I will hear from her why she had to do what she did, and maybe I would have the strength to tell her that everything will be okay…

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