Wives' experience of husbands' pornography use and concomitant deception as an attachment threat in the adult pair-bond relationship.
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| Title: | Wives' experience of husbands' pornography use and concomitant deception as an attachment threat in the adult pair-bond relationship. |
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| Authors: | Zitzman ST (AUTHOR), Butler MH (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity. Jul-Sep2009, Vol. 16 Issue 3, p210-240. 31p. |
| Subjects: | Pornography, Spouses, Spouses' legal relationship, Man-woman relationships, Wives |
| Abstract: | Evidence is growing that pornography use can negatively impact attachment trust in the adult pair-bond relationship. We employed a qualitative methodology to understand attachment implications of a partner's pornography use and concomitant deception. A qualitative analytic team analyzed interviews of 14 women in attachment-idealizing pair-bond relationships in couple therapy for their partner's pornography use. Analyses uncovered three attachment-related impacts from husbands' pornography use and deception: (1) the development of an attachment fault line in the relationship, stemming from perceived attachment infidelity; (2) followed by a widening attachment rift arising from wives' sense of distance and disconnection from their husbands; (3) culminating in attachment estrangement from a sense of being emotionally and psychologically unsafe in the relationship. Overall, wives reported global mistrust indicative of attachment breakdown. Building on this data, we build an attachment-informed model of effects of pornography use and concomitant deception in the pair-bond relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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