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Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity
The Journal of Treatment & Prevention
Volume 9, 2002 - Issue 4
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Family-of-Origin Characteristics among Women Married to Sexually Addicted Men

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Pages 263-273 | Published online: 07 Jan 2011
 

Abstract

Two groups of women (one group married to sexually addicted men and the other group married to nonsexually addicted men) were compared to examine differences in family-of-origin characteristics. It was found that women married to sexually addicted men were significantly more likely to come from families-of-origin where they experienced abuse, abandonment, chaos, physical punishment, crisis, and depression. Further, these women were more likely to have families-of-origin that were rigidly disengaged. Women married to men who were not sexually addicted were more likely to come from cohesively connected families-of-origin. Implications for counseling practice are discussed.

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