Newly-Deleted Porn Blogs; Fresh Start

Hi all -

My partner and I have both been struggling with porn and masturbation recently, and tonight we decided to delete our respective accounts together. Then he sent me a link to this website, and here I am.

It was incredibly sad for me to see all the work I put into my blog gone with the click of a button. I didn't realize it would be so emotional for me to have that all disappear, though I suppose the point is to do the difficult thing even though it's difficult. I've had small successes in the past with giving up porn and masturbation, then something happens and I fall right back into it.

I know what I need to do, but doing it is the difficult part. Here's to trying.

Edit: I'm also historically terrible at keeping up with things in general. I'd like to think that instead of looking at porn when I get on my laptop, I'll come here; however, the idea of wading through these communities and forums is even more overwhelming than the idea of just not getting on my computer at all. But I think I need the community. We'll see, I suppose.

 

Thanks for the welcome, @IGY. I kept a tumblr account that had images/audio/video that were appealing to me which I reblogged from other tumblr accounts.

 

Current strategies: stay off my laptop as much as possible, unless I'm visiting this website; make an effort to be around others instead of isolated in my room; increase intimacy with my partner, who is also working on taking down P + M; develop coping mechanisms.