Hi, 36yo newbie here

Hi!

It's really nice to meet you all!
So let me just introduce myself...

I'm a 36 year-old male from The Netherlands. I'm married to a lovely wife and we've been blessed with two beautiful children.
Since December 2019 I became Christian.

I've been aware that my porn consumption and masturbation is nothing less of an addiction for a few months now. Like probably many of you I've tried stopping a few times already and failed.

I've begun consuming it somewhere in my early teens. I've always been an IT savvy guy/kid so I knew the go-to sources for such material.

I must say I've come a long way already. At the height of my addiction I masturbated to porn daily, sometimes 2-4 times a day.
However far I've come, I haven't been able to stop for longer than about 3 weeks. My current streak is 4 days and my intent is to stop using porn and masturbating alltogether.

My reasons for stopping are three main ones:

• To get to a closer relationship with God.
• Seeing the impact on my wife, after telling her about my addiction.
  
• To rid my body of the sympoms of this slavery to porn.

So I'd like to stop alltogether, I guess if I'd want to set a goal it would be 'no PM for 3 months'.

I'm looking forward to keeping each other out of porn's grip!

 

Thanks for taking the time to write this @John Galt ! It is very much appreciated.

Yes, exactly this. And I hate the fact that I have these compulsive actions.

Thanks for the tip! I love reading, might just get this one too. I've read Every Man's Battle by Stephen Artherburn and Fred Stoeker, that gave me great insight and tips. Might be a tip from me to you

 

Thanks a lot @Sean Edie ! Will definately check that playlist.