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Prevention Tool: Family Safety and Parental Controls

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by eldish, Nov 14, 2014.

  1. eldish

    eldish Fapstronaut

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    The Microsoft Family Safety program has been working really well for me for the past week so I have to tell everyone about it.

    The program allows me to have an account that I can only access certain websites from such as nofap, my school website, my calendar, etc. Thus, I am able to safely go on my laptop when I'm alone without fear that I will look at porn.

    I could always access my other account that has full access to the internet without restrictions however I only use that account when I'm not alone. Thus I know that if I am trying to access my normal account for any reason when I am alone, I am attempting to relapse. So far, I haven't done this.

    Additionally, I was able to do this on my I-phone under the settings by restricting Safari and other applications I have used in the past to access porn. Likewise with this I know that if I type in the restriction code when I'm alone, I'm attempting to relapse.

    My tablet has similar restrictions.

    This is awesome for me because I still can use my devices alone but don't feel worried about using them for porn.

    Overall, this approach seems to be working really well and I highly, highly recommend it. You can even have someone else such as a spounse be the only one who knows the passwords if you want to be extremely hardcore. For me, just knowing that entering the password alone = relapse seems to give me the physical space from the web that I need to stay off the porn.
     
  2. badguy

    badguy Fapstronaut

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    I think this is a good plan - I use a similar idea to make me aware that I *want* to relapse so I can check myself and stop. As you say, a bit of space to correct your thoughts before it's too late. Working wonders for me, hope it works for you too.
     

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