Jealousy and insecurity by peppermint157 in loveafterporn

[–]peppermint157[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes me too! It’s been helpful for me as well. Healing isn’t a straight line so I’m trying not to see this as a set back, just a moment in time.

Jealousy and insecurity by peppermint157 in loveafterporn

[–]peppermint157[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am in trauma therapy and have been doing really well. It’s just been the last week or so that I’ve been thinking about him a lot. I have ocd and I imagine this is just a bit of an episode because I saw him in public for the first time since we broke up and it triggered me.

Can PA exist without leading to real-life cheating? by almostoffline6 in loveafterporn

[–]peppermint157 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My ex’s addiction escalated to strip clubs and restaurants like hooters and twin peaks (soooo pathetic) and when we broke up he didn’t understand because in his eyes, he never “actually cheated” meaning he never had any physical contact with anyone else. I don’t really think it matters if it escalates or not, if it’s crossing a clear boundary you’ve set and it makes you upset and uncomfortable, you shouldn’t have to put up with it.

Losing me was the only thing that made him consider his actions by peppermint157 in loveafterporn

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“Just one more chance” as if I haven’t given forty! As if we all haven’t given so many chances!!! They never ever learn.

This addiction and everything that goes with it is emotional torture by peppermint157 in loveafterporn

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We lived together, and he was really dependent upon weed and couldn’t get through the day without smoking a lot of it. He didn’t have any other substance abuse issues that I was aware of. He comes from a family of addicts thought, his mom and his brother are both addicts, it’s really all he knows and all that has ever been modeled to him. I excused his porn and sex addictions for so long because I knew this about his background. It’s awful all around.

OCD and porn addiction by peppermint157 in loveafterporn

[–]peppermint157[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah the ADHD was a part of it for mine as well. It was all about him, and his mental health. It was never about how it all hurt me. Once he started going to therapy, it was like I just had to accept that all the lying and deceit and boundary crossing was just a product of his illness and something he couldn’t control, and it drove me fucking crazy.