Oh Brave New World

Hey, how's it going? I'm from Washington and I'm 22 years old. I had been using p pretty regularly since I was probably 12 or 13 and I don't remember when I started m but it seems like those things went hand in hand.

Well, I created this account last year in September, and actually since up until a few days ago, I had been p free. I had been mostly m free too (considering that it was a nightly routine for years, to say the least, only giving in occasionally was much better than what I had been doing.)

I recently viewed pornography again and it just made me realize how weak I am personally and that it takes faith and community to get through these things. Although I feel the former could always be stronger I'm certainly lacking in the latter right now during the quarantine. I have great friends but they don't see eye to eye with me on my goal to abstain from PMO, which is fine, but I'd like to know people who understand what I'm going through because they're going through it too.

I had had these inclinations to quit PM before I became religious and now that I am Catholic the desire to be pure of heart is much stronger. I think maybe I started going about it the wrong way thinking I could do it all on my own, but I'm not going to make that mistake again as I begin anew. Anyway, thanks for reading

"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."

- Saint Augustine

 

Thanks, man!

 

Thank you @| Nico | !

 

Hey, welcome to the NoFap community
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It's nice to see you here fighting the good fight alongside us!
First let me go ahead and drop some helpful links for you:
Getting Started Guide / Forum Rules / How to Use the NoFap forums/ Glossary/ NoFap Panic button/
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Here is just some advice:
First and foremost please take a careful look at each section in the forum, there may be something(s) you will find to be of big help to you.

Secondly I advise you to be active on your profile(as there a few active people in the profile section). Please start by choosing an avatar and then begin posting frequent status posts to show you're active and needing support/encouragement.
The forum has got a neat little feature that shows freshly posted statuses for all users to see.
People will find your profile and give you support.

There’s a portion of people who love communicating in the profile section..(it should be and is )mostly spportive talk but it doesn't hurt to deviate from supportive conversations. It would be great to have you join in and become part of the team!
We support others in the threads, profile posts, and journals/reboot logs.
Once you receive some support, please be sure and be grateful to the member for the help/support you received and consider giving some in return to anyone you wish.

Thirdly, you should highly consider creating a public journal/reboot log (in the appropriate sectionfor you) to write about your days in depth for us members to follow along on your journey and offer support to you on.

Please start your journal in the correct section and with that, also try your best to post in the correct sections as it is mandatory and would be helpful to the mods who organize the forum. : )

Last but not least: Good luck on your journey here, make sure to really give it a try with all your heart!

 

Hi there...
Welcome to the community!

 

Hi @Johnthesavage, all the best to you! Feel free to join the 'The Matrix' challenge if you wish.

 

That's great! I, along with the rest of the catechumens at my parish who started on this road last year, were baptized Sunday August 2nd.

We didn't get to at the Easter mass because that's when phase 1 rolled out, but my only disappointment was that a few people couldn't be there that would've loved to have been, but they were there in spirit.