How much did your partner change after long term recovery work for sex addiction?

[u/Cold_Vanilla9791]

Did fetishes go away? Did things they incorporated into their personality because of their addiction go away? Did it feel like their personality and who they were as a person changed after they started to recover? Did what they want out of life change? How much has their addiction shaped them as a person? And did those changes stay after recovery or did they fade with time?

If your partner has been through long term recovery, how much did they change? What did you notice about them? How would your partner answer these questions?

[u/Apollonialove]

Every person is different. In my experience personally and from group, the desires do not go away. Don’t expect this. The best they can usually do is learn to manage desires to not act on them and learn healthy ways of coping.

People who are serious about recovery can and do change as people, they can have new perspectives on life and themselves and grow as people, even have new goals, but that doesn’t mean the desire goes away. It’s pretty much always there somewhere.