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Trying to repair relationship after addiction revealed... please help

Discussion in 'Rebooting in a Relationship' started by bbzb1999, Dec 7, 2020.

  1. bbzb1999

    bbzb1999 New Fapstronaut

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    Hey everyone,

    Opening up about this issue is very new to me and I need some help with how to go about things, and some recovery websites have pointed me to this subreddit, so now that everything is out in the open with me, I figured why not give this a try.

    I've been dealing with porn addiction for a long time. I discovered porn at a very young age, I don't remember the specific one, but I do remember that I was under 10 years old, saw a nude scene on tv and that sent me spiraling. That led to me doing my own research about the human body and specifically the female body, which led to porn. I was too young to know what masturbation was so I just kinda watched it without doing anything.

    Fast forward through my teen years, and I was masturbating every day, often multiple times. This got in the way of a lot of schoolwork, and honestly made me isolate myself in a lot of situations. Through relationships over the years, I was still never able to break this addiction, and for some reason porn just kept consuming a majority of my free time. At some point a few years ago, it became less about the masturbation, and more about the amount of content I was able to find or see. This led to 3+ hours of staring at porn at a time, not even doing anything as it wasn't about pleasure to me anymore but instead just finding more things to look at to fill whatever void I guess I have inside of me.

    Now I'm 20, and almost a year ago I met the true love of my life. Someone who really means the world to me and who I actually envision a future with. Months in, she discovered that I liked a picture on Instagram of someone I barely know personally, whose ass was essentially the draw of the picture. This obviously pissed her off and caused a huge break in the relationship, one that was never really fully mended as her mind has often gone back to that and hurt. The explanation I gave to her was honest, that at this point going online is less about the specific content I'm looking at and more about just clicking on everything, so when I came across that picture in my feed it was never about the picture itself, but just the fact that my brain saw a picture and my reaction was to click the like button.

    This situation made me sit back and revaluate the direction I was going in my online endeavors. For the first time ever, it truly hit me that I had a problem, and this problem was affecting the relationship with the girl I truly love. This was hammered more and more into my brain because she kept discovering other accounts that I followed that were porn accounts, and these discoveries kept hurting her and made her question my love and loyalty. I had never opened up about my apparent addiction before, and I felt so much shame and fear to do so, so I made the worst mistake of my life and I lied about it. I continued to hide my issue from her and tried to help myself on my own, which as you might guess didn't work, and after trying I relapsed and found myself back on the internet for hours at a time looking at porn and not even masturbating, because again at this point it's not even pleasurable, but rather just the endless media that I took in.

    For the past few weeks her and I were doing well, and things seemed to be genuinely happy again. It seemed that I had built back her trust and things seemed to be perfect. I had been spending almost all of my time with her, and we were going days on end of just us, which really helped me go in a good direction with my addiction as I was no longer alone enough to feed it. Yesterday, I had to go outside to put up some Christmas lights, and when I came back in I had found her on my floor crying. When I asked what was wrong, she opened my computer and revealed that she had gone through my bookmarked pages and found onlyfans pages and porn accounts/videos, and she took all of her things, said we were done, and left. Soon after we spoke about things, I explained everything to her about my addiction, answered any question she had honestly, and honestly sobbed at the fact that this could very much be it for us.

    At this point I really don't know what to do. This addiction has taken over my life and broken the relationship with the first person I've truly loved with all of my heart. I need to get help but I don't know where to start, and I want to mend this relationship and help her broken heart, but I don't know where to start with that either. I know that I'm entirely in the wrong for lying as much as I did, and I know that my lies were me actively betraying her. No matter how awful it was for me to have this addiction in the first place, but also to hide it in any way possible and lie to her about all of this, I have never and would never cheat on her or actively try to hurt her. I love her with all of my heart, and this addiction destroyed that and betrayed her trust. I need any help that I can get, and if anyone has any advice or guidance for me, both in stopping this porn addiction and in trying to mend this relationship, please don't hesitate to respond.

    Thank you
     
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  2. DefendMyHeart

    DefendMyHeart Fapstronaut

    First and foremost, find a counselor for yourself and for her. You need one that specializes in P addiction, she needs one for betrayal trauma. Second, get an accountability partner. Someone that can help talk you through things so it takes some of the burden off your SO. Third, consider blocking software for your computer and phone. Fourth, redo your routine away from when you would engage in P. For example, if you did it in your room on your phone or computer, neither of those should be allowed in your room anymore. Plan to readjust your entire life towards recovery. Deleting social media accounts, staying away from YouTube, etc are all things a lot of recovering addicts have done. Sacrifices will have to be made if you truly want to save your relationship. The trust is gone at this point. You'll have to work on yourself and the relationship both together and separate. Ultimately, quitting P has to be something you want to do, and not contingent on anything else including your relationship. My husband quit for 2 years because I wanted him to, then relapsed. Now, he is quitting for him. Had I left him in those 2 years, he would have went right back to P. This distinction is very important. You don't want to feel tempted after a fight or something.

    Look into your triggers and work on them. If you're going to that when you get stressed, mad, or whatever, you'll need a new outlet. Exercise is a common one, as it is replacing one physical component with another. Read journals and stay active on here. Talk to other members, read the SO journals to understand what your girlfriend is going through. It is going to be rough at first. Best of luck
     
  3. Johan Rodríguez

    Johan Rodríguez New Fapstronaut

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    [QUOTE = "bbzb1999, publicación: 2829510, miembro: 424400"] Hola a todos:

    La apertura sobre este problema es muy nueva para mí y necesito ayuda sobre cómo hacer las cosas, y algunos sitios web de recuperación me han señalado este subreddit, así que ahora que todo está a la vista conmigo, pensé por qué no dar esto es un intento.

    He estado lidiando con la adicción a la pornografía durante mucho tiempo. Descubrí el porno a una edad muy joven, no recuerdo el específico, pero sí recuerdo que tenía menos de 10 años, vi una escena de desnudo en la televisión y eso me hizo dar vueltas. Eso me llevó a hacer mi propia investigación sobre el cuerpo humano y específicamente el cuerpo femenino, lo que me llevó a la pornografía. Era demasiado joven para saber qué era la masturbación, así que la miré sin hacer nada.

    Avance rápido durante mi adolescencia, y me masturbaba todos los días, a menudo varias veces. Esto se interpuso en muchas tareas escolares y, honestamente, me aisló en muchas situaciones. A través de las relaciones a lo largo de los años, todavía nunca pude romper esta adicción y, por alguna razón, la pornografía siguió consumiendo la mayor parte de mi tiempo libre. En algún momento, hace unos años, se volvió menos sobre la masturbación y más sobre la cantidad de contenido que pude encontrar o ver. Esto llevó a más de 3 horas de mirar porno a la vez, ni siquiera hacer nada, ya que ya no se trataba de placer para mí, sino de encontrar más cosas para mirar para llenar cualquier vacío que supongo que tengo dentro de mí.

    Ahora tengo 20, y hace casi un año conocí al verdadero amor de mi vida. Alguien que realmente significa el mundo para mí y con quien realmente visualizo un futuro. Meses después, descubrió que me gustaba una foto en Instagram de alguien a quien apenas conozco personalmente, cuyo trasero era esencialmente el dibujo de la imagen. Esto obviamente la cabreó y provocó una gran ruptura en la relación, una que nunca se reparó por completo, ya que su mente a menudo volvía a eso y le dolía. La explicación que le di fue honesta, que en este punto, conectarse en línea se trata menos del contenido específico que estoy viendo y más de hacer clic en todo, por lo que cuando encontré esa imagen en mi feed, nunca se trataba de la imagen. sí mismo, pero el hecho de que mi cerebro vio una imagen y mi reacción fue hacer clic en el botón Me gusta.

    Esta situación me hizo sentarme y revaluar la dirección que estaba tomando en mis esfuerzos en línea. Por primera vez, realmente me di cuenta de que tenía un problema, y este problema estaba afectando la relación con la chica que realmente amo. Esto se martillaba cada vez más en mi cerebro porque seguía descubriendo otras cuentas que seguía que eran cuentas pornográficas, y estos descubrimientos seguían hiriéndola y la hacían cuestionar mi amor y mi lealtad. Nunca antes me había abierto sobre mi aparente adicción, y sentí tanta vergüenza y miedo de hacerlo, así que cometí el peor error de mi vida y mentí al respecto. Seguí ocultándole mi problema y traté de ayudarme a mí mismo, lo que, como pueden adivinar, no funcionó, y después de intentarlo, recaí y me encontré de nuevo en Internet durante horas mirando pornografía y ni siquiera masturbándose

    For the past few weeks her and I were doing well, and things seemed to be genuinely happy again. It seemed that I had built back her trust and things seemed to be perfect. I had been spending almost all of my time with her, and we were going days on end of just us, which really helped me go in a good direction with my addiction as I was no longer alone enough to feed it. Yesterday, I had to go outside to put up some Christmas lights, and when I came back in I had found her on my floor crying. When I asked what was wrong, she opened my computer and revealed that she had gone through my bookmarked pages and found onlyfans pages and porn accounts/videos, and she took all of her things, said we were done, and left. Soon after we spoke about things, I explained everything to her about my addiction, answered any question she had honestly, and honestly sobbed at the fact that this could very much be it for us.

    En este punto, realmente no sé qué hacer. Esta adicción se ha apoderado de mi vida y ha roto la relación con la primera persona a la que realmente amé con todo mi corazón. Necesito ayuda, pero no sé por dónde empezar, y quiero enmendar esta relación y ayudar a su corazón roto, pero tampoco sé por dónde empezar con eso. Sé que estoy completamente equivocado por mentir tanto como lo hice, y sé que mis mentiras fueron que yo la traicionara activamente. No importa lo horrible que haya sido para mí tener esta adicción en primer lugar, pero también para ocultarla de cualquier manera posible y mentirle sobre todo esto, nunca la he engañado ni trataría activamente de lastimarla. . La amo con todo mi corazón, y esta adicción destruyó eso y traicionó su confianza.Necesito cualquier ayuda que pueda conseguir

    Gracias [/ QUOTE]


    Hola, me pasa lo mismo que a ti

    no te rindas, lucha por ella , realmente son mujeres que valen la pena. Te deseo mucha suerte, un abrazo
     
  4. NoMilkNoSugar

    NoMilkNoSugar Fapstronaut

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    First of all, take a deep breath!

    Her reaction is a bit violent but understandable. I don't know her but she is probably more mad about the betrayal than that you watch porn. Talk to her, apologise, be honest and show vulnerability: You feel bad bout this, you were a coward, but you didn't want to disappoint her. You will work on yourself and fix it.

    And then: Do exactly that, fix it. How is different for everyone. In my opinion, don't focus on the porn and getting rid of addiction: Be more ambitious. Be a better man: Work on your independence, focus on your job or studies, learn to run a household and be responsible. In short: Make an effort to grow up. That's 100x harder than porn addiction, if you do that, porn addiction will follow cause you'll have more important things in your life than watching porn. With luck you'll fix things with her and you'll be a stronger couple. I wish you both the best.

    Couples councelling, for 20 year olds? Come down to Earth.
     
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  5. Indiahel

    Indiahel Fapstronaut

    I'm in a similiar situation. Hiding my addiction from my GF. She has caught me ones and it wasn't fun. Don't know how to tell it to her but hate hiding it.
    In your situation I would be transparent, because she already knows. Give her time, because she is really hurt.
     
  6. DefendMyHeart

    DefendMyHeart Fapstronaut

    Where did I say couples counseling? I said a counselor for him for his addiction and a counselor for her for betrayal trauma.
     
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