A New Hope

neon tiger

Active Member
Wont last forever.  But don't sit on it because thats exactly what your brain want, and drag you into PMO.  Im AA they say "move a muscle, change a thought".  Go do something- workout, shopping, clean your car or bathroom, do laundry, go shopping, sit on a coffee shop with a book. Whatever gets you out of your butt and your mindset. Repeat as needed. The feeling will fade with time.  will happen less often. Promise.
 
Day 0

I know that I have what it takes to treat a woman the way she deserves to be treated. So, now that I have something to work towards I can move on...
 

red0

Member
Losing Neverland said:
Day 7

I just got back from a brothel.

I've been reading about stuff like goal setting. I'm going to do all I can to prepare myself for getting a girlfriend. I realise I can only do 50% of the work...

Hi, what do you mean by 50%? Anyway keep going  :)
 
Day 0

I am sick of starting all over again. This is the last time I will do it.

I have received a very strong incentive to give up porn in the last couple of days, so I must seriously reassess what I have been doing and do something entirely different.

I may even consider going back to Recovery Nation and see how long I can last before the fucking coaches make me homicidal.
 
Day 0

In April I will turn 35. In September, I will become an Uncle.

Recovery Nation did not work out for me. I'm too disorganised in my life to be able to follow a highly-structured program like that.

I'm back here to find support for getting better.

I aim to go back to studying next year. I don't know what yet. Right now I'm in an information-gathering period.

This will be a big year for me and I'm very excited.



 

Europe1

Member
Hi LN,

Sorry to hear that it has not been easy for you so far.
But reading through your posts, I am wondering if you are not being too hard on yourself by resetting your count back to 0 every time you relapse.
There must be a more positive approach to it. Starting back from 0 seems to be very demotivating, and if I understand correctly, you have had some weeks in a row without watching porn.

So when you look at the whole package, you could still be proud that you e.g. watched porn 3 times in one month, instead of 45 times.
After relapsing, make it a sport to abstain for a bit longer and to break your previous record. Take it step by step.

What works for me, is that if I am really about to relapse, I jack off as quick as possible without fantasizing too much. This relieves the pressure, and will make life easier for the days to comd.

You can do it! Just be a bit easier on yourself, until it gets easier for yourself to dismiss your urges.

Good luck!
 
Thank you Europe1 for your advice. Yeah, I do have a habit of being very hard on myself.

I watched porn today, after 8 days. That's my new record.
 
I've been watching porn this morning.

I feel pathetic right now, but I'm hopeful that things will get better.

I have been making small changes in my life, I will continue.
 
Shit! 2-3 days ago, I started playing online Strip Blackjack games. I played some more strip games tonight. Luckily, I got impatient waiting for a game to load. If I played that game I probably would've moved on to sex games and then porn. That was a close one. I need to take a step back to examine my behavior.
 

fapfreezone

Active Member
I haven't had many partners in the past.

Nor have I. I think it's useful to realise that society is pretty hung up on this. Take any teen film and the pattern you almost always see is that the more enviable a guy is and the higher his social status he has, the more and prettier women he is dating or sleeping with. With relentless exposure to the implied idea that you need to date and sleep with lots of attractive women portrayed in the media a lot (it's not just films), I think we can see why it's seems to be a social norm that you're defective or something if you're male and not getting any/much.

I have a problem with self-acceptance myself due to this and I'm trying to get over it and though it is hard, I think I'm progressing. To give an example of how I think, if you had slept with a different model every month in 2014, you'd still be the same person today, with the same problems. You'd still have a PMO problem and you wouldn't have been promoted at work. It's just one area of life.

However, I do think that a man's dating life does indicate to some extent how well his life is going. I think if your not dating much at all, then you have some kind of problem that needs solving. Everyone has problems, so that doesn't make you a loser, but it seems to me that the label "loser" would be the conventional one for a guy with dating problems. Why is the guy who gets a leg blown off in the war disabled, but understandable with his problems but a guy who can't get dates a loser? Doesn't really make sense, but I think part of the issue is that you can see a missing limb. So try to respect yourself.

Also, I recommend using tick marks to see your "real progress", because resetting can otherwise become very disheartening.


TLDR
Don't label yourself a loser for not getting dates, your only bad at that one thing. Also, enable tick marks on your counter to help you feel more ok about resets and progress.
 
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