Glad your wife is in the process of healing, Jerry! Glad you're doing well with google and IG in terms of their ability to trip us up.
Keep up the good work, brother.
Keep up the good work, brother.
Just checking in for accountability within my journal. Traveled last week and same as I read in my own journal I know not to what to do but I did it. Alcohol at dinner, lower expectations, lead to PMO behavior. I really was disappointed and I feel so much like Paul in Romans 7 15-25!! But I know how to respond. I have some challenging times coming up and I know how to overcome them. My journey continues.
God bless you, remain strong all the timeI obviously haven't checked in for awhile. Yes I haven't been perfect and while I have had urges, edging and a few PMO episodes. I am stronger now than a year ago, but I am not completely free from the addiction. While Reboot nation and my own journal is and will continue to be a blessing in this journey I won't be visiting as often. My own journal up to this point has been a great resource for me to revisit to make sure I am utilizing the things I have learned over the past year +. Also there are so many great things I have learned from many of you but these men have been a blessing as they have been extremely important - @Phineas 808 @Artemus @guitar1968-- Thank you for your support and guidance. I hope that my journal has assisted others. I pray for all on this site as Porn is a global problem. Thank you @Gabe Deem for all you have done and the countless people you have assisted and continue to assist. The amount of resources you provide have been extremely helpful!
My plan is to check in periodically as well as stay connected with a local group of men that are facing this addiction. I will continue my battle and plan on continuing to stay established with RN!
You and I started almost the same time. I'm pretty much right there with you. I'm stronger than I was a year ago for sure. I have had my ups and downs, but I haven't gone back to every single day and multiple times a day. I have had long stretches and short stretches, but far less than ever before. I still come here to get my head straight and to just not go to a porn site. It has stopped me many times. I wish I could say it's easy to quit for good, but it is not.I obviously haven't checked in for awhile. Yes I haven't been perfect and while I have had urges, edging and a few PMO episodes. I am stronger now than a year ago, but I am not completely free from the addiction. While Reboot nation and my own journal is and will continue to be a blessing in this journey I won't be visiting as often. My own journal up to this point has been a great resource for me to revisit to make sure I am utilizing the things I have learned over the past year +. Also there are so many great things I have learned from many of you but these men have been a blessing as they have been extremely important - @Phineas 808 @Artemus @guitar1968-- Thank you for your support and guidance. I hope that my journal has assisted others. I pray for all on this site as Porn is a global problem. Thank you @Gabe Deem for all you have done and the countless people you have assisted and continue to assist. The amount of resources you provide have been extremely helpful!
My plan is to check in periodically as well as stay connected with a local group of men that are facing this addiction. I will continue my battle and plan on continuing to stay established with RN!
We're here if you need us and you've blessed me as well.I obviously haven't checked in for awhile. Yes I haven't been perfect and while I have had urges, edging and a few PMO episodes. I am stronger now than a year ago, but I am not completely free from the addiction. While Reboot nation and my own journal is and will continue to be a blessing in this journey I won't be visiting as often. My own journal up to this point has been a great resource for me to revisit to make sure I am utilizing the things I have learned over the past year +. Also there are so many great things I have learned from many of you but these men have been a blessing as they have been extremely important - @Phineas 808 @Artemus @guitar1968-- Thank you for your support and guidance. I hope that my journal has assisted others. I pray for all on this site as Porn is a global problem. Thank you @Gabe Deem for all you have done and the countless people you have assisted and continue to assist. The amount of resources you provide have been extremely helpful!
My plan is to check in periodically as well as stay connected with a local group of men that are facing this addiction. I will continue my battle and plan on continuing to stay established with RN!
I appreciate the comments, the dialogue we have and will continue to have, as well as supporting one another. Thank you sir!You and I started almost the same time. I'm pretty much right there with you. I'm stronger than I was a year ago for sure. I have had my ups and downs, but I haven't gone back to every single day and multiple times a day. I have had long stretches and short stretches, but far less than ever before. I still come here to get my head straight and to just not go to a porn site. It has stopped me many times. I wish I could say it's easy to quit for good, but it is not.
Wishing you continued success on your journey. We'll get there eventually.
Really appreciate your honest posts and all of our similarities we share! Not goodbye forever but definitely we will be in contact!We're here if you need us and you've blessed me as well.
Really appreciate your response. The P Demon is a tough one. For me to "stay strong" doesn't work as I am just relying upon myself and not leaning into GOD.I looked up that verse and I was looking at vs 1-14 around it and thinking then, these are all common temptations to man then: lust after evil things; idolatry; fornication; tempting Christ; murmuring.
I guess when we succumb to the temptations it just can manifest differently in men and women for some of those things.
I am the type I would have been hurt if my husband had ever even had a temptation to begin with, let alone succumb to it. It has been very difficult for me to accept God's word as to exactly what it says: these temptations are common to man(kind) period.
Probably the ways of escape are different at different times and different situations for each person. Yours is running to God in your mind. Mine too. I get fearful.
I have to do that same thing brother, run to him in my mind. I cannot deal with the temptation on my own, I am not strong enough.
It says: Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement. And that would be my temptation is to fear instead of running to God like you said.
I have to say I've never actually called my husband lord, small l. But the thought of that is actually so incredibly beautiful thinking about, but it would be really embarrassing if I did it, almost painfully embarrassing, but what a beautiful thought.
Well I will see you later brother. I am really glad he is not ashamed to call us brethren, I thank God for that because we are just woefully insufficient in ourselves without him. I am really thankful for you brother and the beautiful thing is if we fall we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And praise God for the Lord Jesus Christ.
I really cannot overcome the fears on my own so I pray he increase my faith in this way. And I have seen him do it and can say I am in a far different place now on that issue than I was a few years back.
See you later ok, I am really thankful for all you guys on here, really, really thankful.