Pornography use and recovery / PPU-A14-1
Repairing a Broken Agreement — Concept brief
Understand the idea behind repairing a broken agreement and consider whether it fits your context.
8 minutes · Handout · Adults; supported use as appropriate
Fictional example: Noah did not follow a mutually stated device-use agreement.
Use an ordinary or fictional example, with a clinician when appropriate. Repair can acknowledge actual impact while avoiding stigmatizing labels.
The idea
Repair can acknowledge actual impact while avoiding stigmatizing labels.
An ordinary example
Noah did not follow a mutually stated device-use agreement.
What this can look like
Draft an accountable statement, a consent-based next step, and a realistic review plan when an agreed boundary was breached.
Check the fit
What action addresses the breach without demanding immediate trust? You may disagree with the framing, use fiction, or decide that this approach is not useful today.
A useful distinction
A chosen change goal and a clinical diagnosis are different questions. Address functioning, control, consent, values, and distress without assuming that sexual expression itself is pathological.
Prompts for this resource
- What part of this idea makes sense to me?
- What action addresses the breach without demanding immediate trust?
Conceptual background
AASECT Position on Sex Addiction — American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists
Background on the approach only. Original exercises and wording are by More Than Therapy with AI assistance; the source does not validate or endorse these materials.