Why do addicts or alcoholics cheat?
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Addiction can lead to irrational behavior like cheating.
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Addiction can cause individuals to engage in behaviors they never thought they would.
Getting out of a toxic relationship allows people to process the damage and shrapnel caused by the relationship.
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Addiction causes individuals to cross moral and ethical lines
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Cheating in addicted individuals and its relation to their nature and addiction.
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Addicted individuals may experience excitement or danger associated with cheating due to their addicted lifestyle, such as sex addiction or drug use.
Alcohol may 'take the breaks off' and influence the capability of a person to cheat, potentially uncovering their true nature.
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Addicts or alcoholics may cheat due to a lost moral compass and pursuit of pleasure through substances.
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Addicts may engage in cheating as a result of their brain seeking pleasure solely through drugs or alcohol, abandoning their previous values and commitments.
Choosing a partner with a solid moral compass is crucial to avoid the need for constant validation and comparison in a relationship.
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Addicts and alcoholics may cheat due to feeling their needs are not being met
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Excusing cheating by blaming partner for not meeting their needs is a form of gaslighting and shifting responsibility away from themselves
Cheating on a partner can lead to self-doubt and questioning, worsening the emotional impact on the betrayed individual
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We are wired to appreciate beauty but not necessarily attracted to it
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Appreciating beauty does not always lead to attraction
Considerations like appropriateness, values, and consequences prevent acting on attraction
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Addiction is a training program that requires retraining the brain
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Addiction stems from hyperfocus on fulfilling primal needs with dopamine
Recovery involves training ourselves out of addiction through behavior changes
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Trust can be rebuilt after cheating
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Good brakes analogized to rebuilding trust after cheating
Recovery from cheating trauma takes time and effort
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Addicts learning life-changing lessons
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Addicts have learned key lessons that have changed their lives forever through the course of our time together.
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