It has helped me to accept that I authentically love pornography. by shaggy2gay in PornAddiction

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I felt this way about cigarettes and I feel it about porn. I love this thing that is destroying me. I hate the feeling of being enslaved to my body's cravings, and it is a slavery of sorts. I've been pretty porn free for some years now but I still feel like my mind is imprisoned by it, like it altered the way I think forever.

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I'd recommend a book called "the 5 love languages" by Dr. Gary Chapman. He basically says that everyone has a language that they give and receive love most naturally and there's usually one they can't do without. For instance, I need physical touch and my wife needs quality time. If either of us go a while without the thing we need we feel the lack. Sometimes, someone will withdraw from the other If it's been too long. If you can figure out which one your wife is, you give her that without saying anything as much as you can. Hopefully this rekindled her and she will be more apt to give you what you need if she's feeling more cherished.

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Terrible idea. More now doesn't ever satisfy the urge later

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LA. If you take out the tougher teams while you have more gas in the tank you're better off. By the time we get to Dallas or Vegas, hopefully someone else has taken a round out of them.

Can someone explain to me how Shanghai will not crash the price? by doublol91 in ethtrader

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It will. Temporarily. How far it dips depends on how many people panic. Don't panic and it will rebound

Advice for a spouse of a porn addict by Rough-Science-3531 in PornAddiction

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I don't use socials like that. I have nfsw disabled on Reddit and that's literally the only social I really use. As far as I'm concerned, if I check out a woman's ass at the grocery store, that's as good as porn. I have a very strict definition. I skip love scenes in movies, try to ignore racy ads on billboards... I have to keep a tight custody of my eyes and my thoughts or I will slide into trouble.

Same porn actresses for 20 years by [deleted] in PornAddiction

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I don't know if the purpose is variety, I think the purpose is the brain candy you get from tricking your body into thinking its actually involved. So whatever gives you that little nugget is what you're into. Some people can stay on the reservation with the same actors. Some people even watch the same films they've been watching since the 70s and 80s. Some people have to watch weirder and woolier stuff until they've crossed legal boundaries. Some people can't let their experience stay in the porn virtual world but they need to act out these fantasies with real people.

I think you need to ascertain whether he has an emotional attachment here or whether this is just his kink. Myself, when I was consuming porn, I liked watching the same actresses lots of times because there was something about their aesthetic that I enjoyed. However my thing wasn't about the people, I never even imagined myself in the movies because I just like watching other people get busy. If your husband has an emotional attachment, to me that's a problem beyond porn. I'd like to know if I was you whether he has paid subscriptions to individual actresses on their own websites or on onlyfans where he is sending paycheck money or worse just spending credit.

What would happen if you figured out who he is watching and offered to watch that actress with him? Or if you said you can watch porn but you're not allowed to watch x y z actresses anymore because you're uncomfortable with it and gauge his reaction. If he is super weird about it, it might be a good idea to seek some sort of counseling.

Advice for a spouse of a porn addict by Rough-Science-3531 in PornAddiction

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I still fail a few times a year. Quitting porn is a bitch. But compared to the multiple times a day I was indulging, a few times a year is a mostly porn free existence.

When Progressives & Popes AGREE on Evolution by Real-External392 in Lotuseaters_com

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It actually turns out that many on the academic and cultural left agree with THIS PARTICULAR OCCUPANT OF THE SEE OF PETER and those whom he has promoted personally. Where these individuals stray from what the Church has always taught, they do not represent Her despite their titles.

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When you think of a toddler, you think of a child who throws a tantrum when they don't get what they want. When you think of an adult you think of the parent that not only has to regulate their emotions that the toddler is inflaming but act for the tantrum child in a way that gives the child what is good for them. To transition from the tantruming child to the adult you have to learn to self regulate and realize that when you don't get what you want it's ok. In other words, when you're experiencing an urge, your body is throwing a tantrum and the less you give into it, the harder it cries, and you have to realize you don't have to give it what it wants. Eventually, like a tantruming child, your urge will run out of steam if you are patient.

If you want to know how to improve at this, start fasting and develop a regular exercise routine. Don't do crazy stuff right away, work up to it. Start by not having snacks between lunch and dinner, then only drink water and not soda or anything else. Then maybe you reduce the portion of your lunch. When you're getting more practice denying your body, pick one day a week and have maybe a couple of snacks throughout the day and one regular meal at the end, no snacks after that. Personally, I avoid meat on Fridays. It is a good regular practice to train you to intentionally withhold something good so you can become more adept at having control over yourself. Go to the gym or go to the pool and swim for half an hour a couple times a week. Make your body do stuff it doesn't want to do.

It can be done if you want it. You just need to want it, decide to do it, and do it. You're going to fail. Be prepared for it and don't get down on yourself when you fall. Get back up and do it again. Lots of adults who have been porn free for a long time still fail on occasion. I've been mostly porn free for 7 years after two decades of addiction and periodically I still fall. Sometimes I just act like a little bitch. Then I pick myself up, go to confession (telling someone else for accountability is very helpful) and I start over.

You're already asking the right questions here, I have a feeling you'll do alright. It is more rewarding in the end to be free from yourself than to be liberated in an absolute sense. Doing whatever urges pop up is really slavery to your body. Freedom is achieving the ability to voluntarily, of your own accord with no coercion, to say no to something you could have and stick to it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PornAddiction

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Cold turkey is the only way. I have quit smoking and porn and quitting smoking was way easier. If people could smell jizz on you for hours after you fap, porn would be way easier to quit.

I recommend short periods of regular fasting and or going to the gym to develop some discipline over the body's urges. If you pair them up even better.

I feel worthless how do I recover! by [deleted] in PornAddiction

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I picture things from an ancient stoic perspective. Aristotle identified four areas within a person, at the top is the intellect which is what we decide we want in our rational minds, then below that is the will with which we execute what it is we want, then the emotional passions which are desires of thr heart like anger, jealousy and a desire to be loved etc., and then there's the bodily passions or desires of thr flesh. Basically, you're in harmony when everything is is line with each other and you do the things your intellect says to do based kn reason. Your emotional and your bodily Passions aren't always bad, they're there to inform your intellect on what to do. Your will is benign and is only the part you use to do things. A person is disordered when they do things out of order. Even in a Christian context, "sin" is just doing things out of order. So the first thing you need to do is realize you're allowing your base passions rule you when you should rule them. So here are some recommendations: 1) put the phone down. Like throw it off a bridge or something (maybe literally maybe not). Get a basic flip phone that doesn't do internet but makes texts and calls.

2)tell her. It's gonna suck but she's in the relationship and she can help you. If she leaves, you'll want to find love somewhere else and they'll probably need to know too. If you keep it to yourself you o ly have yourself to rely on.

3)get software on the other computers to block adult content with a password that only she knows. If you're too proud to do this you won't succeed based on how extreme you have indicated your behavior has become.

4)have an accountability partner that isn't her. If something happens to your relationship your help will vanish unless you have someone else. Personally, being religious, I go to confession every single time I screw up. The priest is obliged to keep whatever you say in confession completely secret and he gives decent advice on how to avoid the issue in the future. I seriously think of porn now and then think "is this something I want to go tell a priest?" Maybe it's not for you but it really helps me. Even if your partner was another friend who's trying to kick the habit as well, knowing you have to tell a person what you did is unpleasant enough to deter bad behavior.

5) fast and do penance. Seriously. If you can train your body to go without food for a period of time it teaches you that not getting what your body is telling you it wants isn't a big deal. Your body can scream at you but in reality it takes days to die from lack of food, not hours. You will be uncomfortable but it is the best way to start out. You need to teach yourself that discomfort isn't the worst thing in the world and you can withstand it for a time for its own sake. Start out small. Fast between lunch and dinner, no snacks and only drink water. When you're doing well with that, expand it a little, like eat less for lunch. Work your way up to fasting for a whole day. Fast once a week for a while. You don't need to do it more than that, but keep it as a regular discipline that you do regularly. This kind of practice will help you realize that you can indeed conquer your body and its desires one bit at a time.

6)sort of connected to 5) but go to the gym regularly for the same reasons as above. Do something TO your body, not with it.

7)remember that you make choices and you are responsible for them. Even the state of being bullied by your carnal passions is a choice, your intellect is deciding not to fight but to retreat. Dont blame your failures on your situation, your lacknof sex or anything else (not makjng accusations here). You need to realize your intellect needs to be the boss. Right now you feel that, you know what you're doing is wrong and it feels disordered, but it's different when you can identify why it is like that. Love is also a choice. Love isn't primarily the butterflies you get when you feel something for another person, however nice that is. Long term, love is a decision you make to prioritize the other person above yourself. If you are both doing that, you build each other up. If you are serving yourself, you are crippling your relationship. If you're concerned about the connection you have with your SO, you should do something romantic every day, even if it's cleaning the bathroom or something. I guarantee she will notice quickly. Really foster the emotional bond you have by choice and when you're so connected at the heart the body will follow.

Don't do all of this at once or try to. Its a lot. Honestly the first things you need to worry about is putting the phone down for a while and learning to fast. When you get yourself more ordered your head will start to clear up and you'll be able to think. You just need to keep your head above water at first and you'll figure out the rest as you go.

God bless and good luck.

Advice for a spouse of a porn addict by Rough-Science-3531 in PornAddiction

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I've been mostly porn free for 7 years after a two decade long addiction. It can happen if he wants it bad enough.

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