Thanks for sharing. I'm on day 5 and want to stop because I'm stressed out. Came here instead. Can't say I'm in the clear today but this is helping me recover my determination. I'm realizing that for me this is more about staying motivated to stop than it is about resisting an urge. I need to look at this as an affirmative choice to live clean, not just a decision to avoid porn. Reading your success is helping me regain my desire to stop PMO.
Thanks for the post. I'm hitting 170 today and I still can't believe that this internal change has actually occurred. The change happens within, where you're able to deal with the urge when it hits. This is the best way that I can describe it. It's not that urges disappear but that you have self control when they hit. I also find that I'm not dealing with as many urges. When you knock out the images from online your imagination is no longer putting those images up. When they do hit, I truly can effectively deal with them. For too many years I didn't think that I had self control. I honestly saw any effort at self control like being with a person who is holding onto the side of a ledge by his fingers. Eventually I would give in and fall. By way of analogy the past 170 days has taught me how to get up on top of that ledge and stand on it comfortably. Again, I never thought that I would ever be at this place. I couldn't see it as a possibility. Freedom Is Possible. God's Peace!!
I'm currently a month away from pmo and I hope I will get to 5 months too. My goal is a year without pmo and then forever. This thread helped me a lot. Thanks man and keep up the good work. You inspired me and prepared me to fight on. I was really very depressed today but you changed my mood and now I now I can accomplish it. Thank you for that. Peace.
"The change happens within, where you're able to deal with the urge when it hits." Amen to that. Day 9 and going strong thanks in large part to posts like yours!
Hey man, thanks for sharing. i liked the part about not needing a girl to smile back at you to know that your a good man. i can relate to the same social anxieties. I'm on day 2 of a reboot. good luck to you man. -Casey
Checking in. Hitting a 178 days this afternoon and 6 months this Wednesday. The day count gives me more awareness of the distance I have between where I am and where I was. I have encountered pretty heavy stresses in the last 2 weeks and I simply won't quit my focus.. Not struggling, just vigilant in dealing with the first thought of PMO. My life is filling itself out as PMO energy and time is dedicated to greatness. Real change happens. Nothing short of a miracle. Pray, study, journal, embrace the struggle and watch urges pass, be alive. GOD'S PEACE
More suggestions and more information about it .................I also think , TV media was the first reason for all of us to fall into this PMO bad habit . afterwords , its internet . other things ...........