Wow, this week has just been incredibly easy, and I think a lot of it comes from my using this new method of tracking my progress. I haven't look at porn in what my timer says is almost 4 days now, and it didn't seem that hard at all. But there could be two reasons for this:
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[*]This new way of tracking my progress makes me less scared of a backslide, which makes me less sad. After you backslide and you are back at day 1, it feels that much easier to backslide again the next day and the next day, whereas I know that if I backslide 1 day it isn't that bad, but backsliding more often will hurt my numbers, and it just gets better and better the more time I keep track.
[*]My wife and I are having sex every night now and in order to do this I am not masturbating during the day. We decided to do this because it makes us both feel closer to each other, and it's easier to keep having sex when we are already used to having it every night instead of every few days.
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I think both things are combining for a beautiful synergy that is making it ultra easy for me to keep the faith. I was initially skeptical that stopping masturbating would make it easier to beat the addiction, but after not having masturbated for a week (but still being able to be satisfied through my marriage) I think that I was wrong in dissing it, and that my addiction to masturbation was fueling my addiction to porn.
Additionally to that, I think if you find the "days since last XXX" system to be very hard emotionally on you when you backslide, I would suggest setting up a google spreadsheet to keep track of your average XXX per day rate, with a line chart to help you visualize your progress. If anyone is interested in this but doesn't know what formulas to put in the cells, I would be happy to make another post outlining the system.