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Asking for help before I wreck my entire life up

Discussion in 'New to NoFap' started by Kyostaa, Jul 10, 2017.

  1. Kyostaa

    Kyostaa Fapstronaut

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    Good afternoon,

    My name is Kyostaa (ficticious name, of course). I'm a college teacher, male, married, 30 y/o, no children yet. I have no idea on how to present myself to the users of this website, but hey!

    I guess I'm here to talk about my sexual problems, so here we go. I noticed I had a serious problem and that my webporn usage was beyond control when I started joining roleplaying communities where I had easy access to fantastic erotic pictures and to talk/interact through text with similar minded people. Before that, I've been using porn since I had internet access.

    I have had no fulfilled intercourse with orgasm with penetration before I met my girlfriend/actual wife. That was when I was already 25 years old. Only later I realised that this was most likely due to masturbating to porn almost daily. This led to some really sad moments when I could get laid - almost an hour of intercourse and I would not even get close to orgasm.

    I have been fighting this thing off for more than a year now. Two, three years, most likely. I stay one week, one month, once even three months or more, and then go back to it and start all over again. Today I was at work and could not get my mind off of going back home and accessing the most profane content I could figure. I am constantly looking at pics on the anonymous mode of Chrome. I enter, I look, I get ideas, I close it. This builds up for hours or days and then I just discharge it, wherer watching porn on my shower or when I'm alone at home.

    I've tried several things. Blocking websites on my browser often fails. I can easily access porn using another user account on my own laptop. Redirecting websites from hosts list on my operational system has worked, but when I'm horny I just erase them. I've tried working out and exercising. The problem is, I'm pretty fit myself. I've ran 18km non stop; my record is 50 push ups in one go and I can do muscle ups and some other hard stuff as well. So, I can understand that some people can get tired with a small workout each time they think about accessing some contents. That would fail for me too. Sadly.

    I've tried meditation, but I can't organise my time for it. I can't do anything extreme whenever I feel the urge or my wife would notice. She's a psychologist. I've said to her that I stopped watching porn, only often seeing it. I feel terrible for lying for her. She would understand if I open myself for her... but she could never accept me if she knew what kind of content I've used.

    No, I'm not a criminal and never did something against the law, or even watched stuff like that.

    I need help. I want to be free. The longest time I managed to be porn-free was when I joined Darebee so I could get in touch with people, was learning stuff and it was great. My mind was filled with things so I couldn't dedicate much time to porn. I don't know when it was that I came back to it though. Maybe getting in touch with people that actually knows what I'm going through may help me more than a fitness website.

    So, this is me, I guess. Or a part of me. That I want to end.

    Cheers!
     
  2. slb

    slb Fapstronaut

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    Welcome!

    Sounds like you're in the right place. Good luck going forward. I do have a couple of comments on things you said

    This kind of set off my BS alarm. The one I set off when I realise I'm rationalising or not being honest with myself:) If you've got time for porn, you've got time for meditation (or whatever else you use to help beat the addiction, but you mentioned meditation).

    Put simply: every time you get an urge for porn, instead of looking at some, meditate. You get a double effect. One, you've mediated. Two, you weren't looking at porn because you were mediating instead. And it took no more time than looking at porn would have!

    I should add that I'm no expert on meditation, but there are a bunch of resources out there including some really short (5 min) meditation techniques. I did start a bit. I never completed the course, I admit, but have used the basic techniques from the first couple of lessons sometimes when I needed to clear my head and it works even if it's one minute.

    It's up to you, but think about whether you're going to end up telling her (or she's going to find out anyway) sooner or later? If that's the case then you telling her sooner will be way less bad than her finding out later.

    Especially if she's a phycologist, won't she notice something is wrong anyway?

    A related question is can you really do this and succeed while hiding it from her? The secrecy feeds the shame which feeds the addiction. At least that was my experience.

    It's a huge decision. You're putting your marriage on the line. But with her by your side supporting you, you'll be more likely to succeed than trying to do it by yourself and hide it at the same time. Think about it. Ask around here. But don't rule it out.

    Not quite sure what you mean by this?

    Never heard of darebee but if learning something new helps, then find something you are interested in and learn how to do it! It's a good technique. Apart from the time and energy, when you do get an urge, you can fill your mind with the thing you are learning instead. I do this - with something new or just with a technical problem. I find it really works.
     
  3. Kyostaa

    Kyostaa Fapstronaut

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    I'd like to thank you for your feedback and for your welcoming!

    What I meant on that part you didn't get was, once my wife asked me if I still watched porn. In her conception I watched it as common sense dictates about men: often. She has no clue about how deep my problems with it are. I said to her that I gave it up almost completely, watching it only very often. Which was a lie. Hopefully I will make it a true thing now.
     
  4. Protagoras

    Protagoras Fapstronaut

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    I know that feeling. Welcome. Take advantage of all the resources here. Let's beat addiction!
     
  5. slb

    slb Fapstronaut

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    Yeah, I think a lot of guys here have done that. "I used to watch it", "only very occasionally", "now and then". I know I said this kind of thing (in fact I think some of those are direct quotes of what I said) to my SO before I admitted to it being an addiction. It's a cliché but I think it's true: the fact I lied about it was as bad as the fact I did it. That's the way she sees it, and I've been coming to agreement with her on that as I make this journey.
     

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