2 Comments on “Increase Emotional Intimacy in Relationships”

celia preston on June 25 said:

my husband says he loves me however there was a lack of emotional connection during his childhood this led to him later becoming addicted to pornography. He really is a kind and loving person in all other ways and although he has opened up to me about his porn use i feel he has built up in his own mind an emotional attachment. I am hurting very deeply because i am emotionally attached to him and try to fullfill all his emotional needs, i try to make him feel happy and safe both both physically and emotinaly. I think he needs to seek specialist help but i dont know what kind of help. The porn doesn,t bother me but i am jealous of the emotional bond he has with it. I feel that it is leaching the very intimacy out of our relationship.i don,t know if hypnosis would work for him or even if it would be strong enough subconciously to break this bond. please can you comment on this?
Mark Tyrrell on June 25 said:

Hello Celia

Certainly being overly focussed on porn can sap time and focus away from real relationships. The fact that your husband has actually shared that he does this with you speaks to me that there is already a good level of shared trust and intimacy in your relationship. I don’t know if your husband had read this article: http://www.uncommonhelp.me/articles/overcome-porn-addiction/

I also helped produce this hypnosis download: http://www.hypnosisdownloads.com/addiction-help/porn-addiction which he may find makes all the difference. It’s a curious thing that anxiety and stress tend to make us do things compulsively-once we deal with the sources of the stress as well as the habit of the compulsion then progress is often very swift.

All the best

Mark