For example, 70-75 percent of addicts have thought about suicide. Many sex addicts suffer from broken relationships. Forty percent experience severe marital and other relationship problems. Sexual activities outside the primary relationship result in loss of self-esteem to both partners as well as severe stress to the relationship. The sex addict is frequently absent, resulting in a loss of time in parental role modeling.
Pressure is placed on the partner to provide parental support and nurturing of the children.
Partners of sex addicts may develop their own addictions and compulsions, psychosomatic problems, or depression and other emotional difficulties. These factors can result in an unstable family environment. Growing up in such a home increases the risk for the next generation to have addictive disorders. Sex addicts have an increased risk of STDs. Genital injury may result from excessive sexual activity or the use of sex aids and foreign objects.