I think you can do it with the Grace of the Holy Spirit! A daunting goal for me though! @Dana91 I am just keen to know how Celibacy has influenced your life and improved you as a person. You may choose not to answer if you want!
A few years ago I was not a believer and I was critical of celibacy. I even believed the main stream. Since I believe I tried to keep it, first simply because it belongs to the 10 commandments and Jesus gave us this on the way, meanwhile as a conviction. I see masturbation as an addiction. Once you have started, it is hard to get away from it. Of course there are no black lungs but a dark soul. It is something that I take - I put myself above everything. But I want to give myself to someone else and I can't do that if I only concentrate on myself and satisfy it directly every time a desire arises. What do I do later once I am married and my husband, for example, is in the hospital for a long time. It's great if he then knows that I'm waiting for him and do not have to do every other day to myself, because I'm in this addiction. How did it change my life. I no longer have a compulsion to satisfy myself. At the moment there are no more days where I think of only one thing the whole day and wait until it is finally closing time to pursue my addiction. It is a freedom to decide for myself when I want to do what. I am faithful to God and so later I can also be faithful to my future husband. Faithfulness begins before the wedding. Translated with DeepL
