Good for you Matt. I’m posting for the first time on here. I use this as a tool and read about other people’s journeys. My wife has helped me alot. Even though I pushed our relationship to the brink of divorce. She still tries and helps me with my addiction. She is my accountability partner. But I’m happy to have more than 1. I have struggled with porn for going on 7 years or so. Almost 2 months sober. I have reset multiple times for this or that. Not giving it my all or making an excuse. Happy to say I dont feel the need to do it anymore. So feel free to reach out.
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@Fireweed thank you for your interest in this terrible addiction. I recommend you the book Don’t Call it Love by Patrick Carnes. I found it really helpful in the analysis of the roots of sexual addiction.
I am 14 days sober and what really helped me always is connecting with God and with others. Isolation and bad fantasy are the biggest temptations
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Thanks for the book tip. Is your addiction/symptoms very tightly bonded to religion?
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@Bomdhil can answer for himself, but I would say that it’s like any addiction. For some people it is a religious thing, and for others religion has very little to do with it.
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Yep that’s what I have figured out 
but learning all the time
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@Fireweed I am agree with @MikeSeekingHope. In my experience nowadays recovery will be impossible without God. In the past my misunderstanding of religion and God led me to feed the addiction but now is not like that
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Hi Matt, nice to meet you. I’m a recovering porn addict too, and would love to partner up. Looking forward to walking the journey with you
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Awesome, thanks Matt. Good to have you in the group and gain some knowledge.
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How is everyone doing resisting the temptation?
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Hi Nate,
Doing well here so far.
How are you?
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Yh man I’m doing well thanks @KevinesKay just taking it a day at a time. In a good place atm.
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Doing well. Christmas holiday was hard because I got overwhelmed with end of year tasks and I tend to think “all of nothing” when I’m faced with any multi-stage or complex task. The result is I get paralyzed thinking I’ve got to do it all. Of course that’s not possible! So I am working on strategies for managing my time now, and I hope by implementing them in my day to day routine, I can prevent that feeling of being overwhelmed.
How are you?
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What day are you guys on?
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Do not hesistate to reach out in case you need any help, would be more to happy to help, i am myself suffereing from it.
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I would love to be accountable with someone through Facebook messenger.
Anyone up for that?
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Yeh im down