Can an ex-addict have sex without renewing their addiction?

Do you believe it is possible for a sex addict ever to break the addiction and to actually have a normal sex life?

I wasn’t diagnosed as such, yet my boyfriend is a psychologist and insists that I have it. I am in madly in love with this man. He is everything I’ve ever wanted.

Its been over a year and he has told me that we’re waiting for my own sake. He’s afraid to do anything that may trigger me back onto the spiral and yet I want him. Its nothing like what I’ve felt, before. It isn’t to patch some emotional void, its because I love him and because I want that closeness and that pleasure with him. I feel as if I can do that, now.

Before, it wasn’t even with one person. It was like a drug. I felt great while doing it and terrible, afterward, thus I kept doing it, even when it meant doing some things that I’m very, very ashamed of, today. I never actually had a boyfriend during that time. Love wasn’t even a factor.

Without pretending to know me better than I know myself and without referencing me, do you believe that a sex addict is capable of resuming a normal sex life?

Why or why not?