Originally Posted by
ScottFromWI 
You were able to overcome your urges/desires to drink alcohol, which is also a sin in the way alcoholics drink. It's also a primal urge -the pleasure part of it anyway. Consider that your urges for sex might be exactly the same as your urges to drink. And you don't simply ignore them, you learn to live with them and cope.
YES I am starting to feel like my desire for this man is my replacement addiction.
I guess the only real question is how to get over leaning on unhealthy things that make you feel good temporarily.. why do I get rid of one and adopt another?