If there are certain things you shouldn’t tell your spouse about your porn addiction, it must mean there are important things s/he does needs to know. First and foremost, that you are using pornography. Confessing to your spouse, either before or after you’ve been caught, is crucial for your recovery…
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Flying Solo? You Can Still Quit Porn.
Want to know one of the toughest parts about quitting porn? Being honest with someone else about your struggle. Many, many people get stuck on this step. They feel trapped in a cycle of shame and guilt and are unable to remove themselves from this cycle that binds them to…
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Watching Porn at Work? The Consequences of Risky Browsing
“I was completely blindsided a month ago. My husband of 23 years lost his job because of viewing porn at work. He was in a high level position. It was his second offense. He had been given three days off work w/out pay 2 years ago because of it. He…
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High School Student Opens Up About Porn in His School
Normal. When I sat down to talk with 16-year-old high school junior Sam about his exposure to pornography in public schools, the first word he used to describe it was “normal.” Sam was homeschooled through elementary and middle school, so when he started attending public high school as a sophomore,…
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Boys Adrift: Book Review
The title of Boys Adrift offers a cogent summary of the purpose of the book. The author is concerned that today’s boys seem less motivated than those of the previous generation. Boys are also doing worse in school than girls. Fewer boys are graduating and going to college. Why is…
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Can a Therapeutic Separation Help Our Marriage after Betrayal?
As a Betrayal Trauma Recovery coach, I see up close the personal devastation experienced by women who have been in long-term relationships with men struggling with pornography addiction and/or emotional or physical affairs. In the early days following the discovery of addiction or an affair, emotional anguish, mental confusion, and…
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True Story: Woman Finds Healing After 15 Years of Addiction
To maintain anonymity, we have removed the name of the user who submitted this story and replaced her name with “G.” This is a true story. “I was raised in a big Christian, conservative home (and still hold to those views and doctrines), where no one expected porn to be…
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What’s the big deal about watching porn? (Teen Edition)
What’s the big deal about watching porn? If you’re a teenager, you might have asked that question or others like it. Scrolling through this blog, you’ll find a lot of stories from people whose lives have been messed up by porn. Many of these stories retell the damage done to…
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The Deadly Cycle of Pornography
In my last video I talked about the cycle of temptation, applying it specifically to pornography. If you haven’t gotten a chance to look at it go ahead and watch last week’s video. If you are finding yourself in the middle of the series, don’t worry, click this link and it…
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Is It Wrong to Masturbate to Fantasies of My Wife?
Is masturbating to your wife a sin? What if you masturbate to thoughts of your fiancé or girlfriend? We received this question from someone in our community: “I have asked several pastors/mentors/friends about masturbation and whether it is sinful or not. I do not watch pornography, however, sometimes when I…
