Recently I’ve cut my porn addiction and it’s helped my relationship drastically by making me more sexually attracted to my partner and not so driven to be on my phone watching the next video to be turned on but instead my partner now does all that for me and it’s just been an absolute miracle how quitting watching porn has affected my relationship in a very good way, but there’s always these little urges that I have to want to go back to it but I know if I do it it’ll affect my relationship in a negative way. I didn’t think I had an addiction towards this until I started thinking how negatively impacted my relationship was on how it didn’t make me want to sleep with my partner nearly as much nor did I have much attraction sexually towards her because of all the different stuff I was looking up on the hub and how much I was always on it.
Any advice on how to remain off of it?
Recently Cut My Porn Addiction
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Congrats on kicking the habit my guy. Currently on that path myself. 🙏🏽
Replace the habit. Trigger management. Positive reinforcement. Good job 👏
I don’t have advice but as a partner, thank you for fighting the urges and making an effort for the sake of the relationship and of course your self. So many men go denying that they have a problem maybe try a support group to help with the urges. But you have this wayyy more controlled than you think.
Congratulations on cutting back!
Idk what is considered addiction, but I recently kicked the habit too and I think it’s been helping. I haven’t beat my shmeat it acouple weeks and feel good. More in control of myself and urges. Not even just porn, but food as well. I would scroll PH or X when I’d get down or bored and now I find other ways to occupy time. Noticing changes
Congratulations on getting control back from porn addiction! I know from experience how life drenching it is.
After some “relapses” throughout the years, all I can say is block porn websites (browser extension, dns, whatever will work for you) just in case.
Do not give in to the urge of taking a look at “just one” photo or video. Your porn junkie brain will try to do this to you to get you back into the habit, and at that time you have to remind yourself why you value your freedom from porn, and resist the urge.
Oh, from my experience (but that was when I was single), masturbating when I felt like it (but of course without porn) actually helped to reduce the tension and frustration. If your partner will not be available and you will have the need, just do it, but without using porn!
Best of luck!
That is amazing to hear! Congrats! I am on my path to quitting it, currently on my 11th day after 15 years of porn. I also struggle with attraction to my partner even though she is an amazing and lovely person.
I am really happy to hear all the benefits you got from quitting, that is really what I wish to achieve
Congrats. How long did it take you to see an effect?
Is watching porn bad?