Why Would You Tell Your Kids About Your Sex Addiction?

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There are genuinely difficult ethical dilemmas in parenting. Whether to inform your children about your “sex addiction” is not one of them. The answer, obviously, of course, is “NO.”

That answer was not immediately apparent to one New York Times Magazine (NYT) reader, who wrote to the magazine’s advice newsletter seeking guidance. 

“My wife and I are trying to make an ethical decision about truth-telling within our family. We’ve been married for decades and have two teenage children. For most of our marriage, I lived a double life driven by compulsive sexual behavior that escalated over time. My wife discovered evidence of it a few years ago. The discovery shattered her trust and nearly ended our marriage,” writes the anonymous sex addict. “Our children are doing well — happy, engaged, thoughtful teenagers on positive trajectories. They know their parents’ marriage has been under strain and that we’ve been in therapy; they do not know the nature of........

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