Hi there ... time to stop at 50

Good luck. You'll find lots of us older folk journalling our way out of this addiction here: https://forum.nofap.com/index.php?forums/ages-40.21/

 

Welcome!

 

Welcome. I'm just about a year behind you.

Having been familiar with this online community for a number of years, let me just say the QUALITY of your reboot process makes a huge difference, don't fall into the trap that it's only about time. (and therefore age)

And the fact that it's online is significant, you can make the most of it, maybe keep in close touch and getting to know some APs on a personal level, but also don't fall into the trap that you have a ton of support just because there's a ton of people on the online platform. Although there's more awareness around it now a lot of people still don't seem to appreciate how social support online isn't the same, especially when people only deal with text messages. (which can be a post or even shorter text messages - both in terms of the length of the message and the length of the attention span) And though a video meeting is a lot better, a lot of people seem to have fallen into the trap of convenience and make no effort to meet in person when and where they can.

I mean what if someone told you you can have a lot of great romantic relationships, but you can just basically never meet any of them and it is all long distance? So why would non-romantic relationships for the sake of reboot and recovery be any different?