The layers of a sexual addiction

I think we all know that we act out on our sexual compulsions because we have an addiction; but, there are four main layers to our addiction and sublayers underneath them.  The four layers of our addiction are: psychological, emotional, physical and spiritual.  If we try and self-treat our addiction we will find that it is more complex and complicated that we realized and our chances for success are very limited.  Even if we do seek help, if we don’t seek to understand and treat all four layers of the addiction, we won’t succeed.  Our lack of understanding of these layers is one of the reasons that most addicts have tried and failed so many times.  Every addict I have known had quit a million times only to start back up another million times.  Quitting was not the problem; staying stopped was.  The purpose of this article is to overview each of these four layers. Read more