Today Heather interviews Rosie Makinney of Fight for Love Ministries–a ministry dedicated to helping women affected by porn in their marriages. Rosie shares the resurrection story of her marriage and how she and her husband came to a new place of hope and healing after porn. We go to some hard places today in our conversation about the realities of porn and how it hurts our marriages. Here are some of the topics we tackle:
- Why we don’t talk about it when porn shows up in our marriages and what that does to the issue.
- How porn use affects our brains, even if we’re not the one looking.
- How porn affects the user’s brain, but how you can rewire it!
- Why porn is so addictive and how it hijacks the brain, making it almost impossible to stop without help or intervention.
- What porn does to satisfaction in marriage.
- How to cope with the pain if you’ve just found out your husband is looking at porn.
- What to do if you’re dating a guy who’s using porn.
- How to be on the same team in fighting porn in your marriage–even while you’re still grieving and hurting.
Looking for more resources on what to do if your husband is looking at porn?
Connect with Fight For Love Ministries: https://www.fightforloveministries.org
Listen to the Fight for Love Podcast: https://www.fightforloveministries.org/podcast
Listen to Heather’s appearance on Fight For Love Podcast: https://www.fightforloveministries.org/podcast-1/episode/23915a1b/64-struggling-with-body-image
Learn more about Rosie:
Rosie Makinney is an author, speaker and podcaster who ten years ago, entered in the fight against her husband’s compulsive porn use. From the very beginning of her journey, Rosie has been bold and relentless about reaching other wives struggling with porn-invaded marriages and building a recovery community on the Central Coast of California. She is the founder of Fight For Love Ministries, which equips women with the faith and the facts to take back their relationships from porn. Rosie is a Lifeway author, an international speaker, and host of the Fight For Love Podcast. She is also the founder of Fight For Love Ministries which equips women with the faith and the facts to take back their relationships from porn.
Need porn accountability software for your home? Learn more about Covenant Eyes:
Compared to Who? is a Covenant Eyes affiliate. This is the Internet accountability software used in Heather’s home on all of their devices–adults and kids. It offers weekly reporting of what sites have been visited along with alerts. It’s worth every dollar to know what your family is seeing online. The added accountability can be a huge asset for any man or woman in porn addiction recovery too. Note: **If your husband is recovering from porn addiction, please do not be his accountability partner on Covenant Eyes. Have his reports sent to a trusted male friend, sponsor, or mentor who can help him on his road to recovery. Learn more at the this link: https://covenanteyes.sjv.io/YMZQr
Read more on what to do if your husband is battling lust in this blog post: His Lust Problem is Not About You
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Thank you for such an eye-opening podcast, Heather! I’m having my husband listen to it too.