I'm thinking of getting married and raise a family

IRoslan

Member
Hey everyone,

I don't really know where to start. But the idea of this Reboot Nation has really brought some hope for me. I can't thank the admin enough for bringing such effort and most importantly, all praise and gratitude to God, for moving Gabe's heart into establishing this site.

I can't really remember how I'd actually got into this. But I already have such feeling when I was quite young. Probably 11 or so. This idea of having a sexual gratification. I know, 11 years old is probably weird and too young. But then, when I was 13, I heard my friends talked about masturbation and I tried it, out of curiosity, without any imagination of women, it felt really good. Then, the next year they were talking about masturbation with sexy images. I tried that, start imagining & fantasizing, and that felt even better. It was like out of this world.

Then I slowly moved from sexy images, to nudity and finally to hardcore porn. Then I realized that what I'm doing is wrong and it didn't feel right. It goes against my religious teaching and personal belief of women, who was supposed to be man's supporter and companion, not sexual objects. I feel terrified and found out it was really hard to drop it. Every time I failed, I would cry, I feel bad, I repented, and then I drop again. The cycle goes on and on and I felt really bad. People thought I'm awesome due to speech and preach, but deep down, I'm just another loser, who doesn't do what I preached and that felt even miserable.

I started objectifying women. I can't feel respect and love for the opposite gender anymore. Of course, I've given a thought that, getting married was to prevent such things from happening, and I do hope when I get married things will water down. But what if I'm gonna screw the whole marriage? I mean, I'm so freaking worried about this cos things already happened. I already fell into this dark pit. It gives a shiver thinking about it. I can't raise a family with a feeling of lust and treats her the way women are being treated on the porn sites. I really don't wanna screw up. And I really do hope I can cure such addiction and escape ED b4 I get married. God willing, end of this year I'm planning to get married.. :)

Ever since 15 years old, I've tried quitting but it turned out to be just a dream cos the cycle keeps repeating until today. Thank God, I'm free for the last 17-days with no masturbation. But I did cheated with some sexy images, but somehow, after practicing the steps to strengthen willpower from the website, I managed to stop and carry on with life. Cos usually It'll end with ejaculation.

Do pray for me and I loathe your support so much. Thanks guys...

17/30 days to go...
 

IRoslan

Member
Day 18 (19/6/2014)

Thank God, it's pretty much a clean day today. I registered for Reboot nation and now 18 days of success, still counting... I felt good cos usually, after 7-14 days, I would've relapse. Knowing that a whole community is fighting this, boosted my willpower.

I've read some posts on the success stories. really really amazing tips to get me going. I remembered what it says, there's no such thing as one relapse. You go through that one relapse, it's gonna cos even more effort to get back at this stage. I guess there's no easy way around to this.

No specific relapse so far.

Struggling, man.. I do. But  I know I can nail this (^0^)
 

IRoslan

Member
Day 19 (20/6/2014)

Thank God again, another day of free PMO, despite some struggle. I started noticing that my willpower gets really really know when I'm tired or exhausted. Recently, I've been doing my major essay and when it gets really late at night, images starts popping in my head, etc.

Last night, suddenly someone beautiful followed me on Twitter and tweeted me. Man, I suddenly lost my mind, heart beating fast and all of a sudden the urge to look at porn gets stronger.

I guess communicating with women alone is a bad idea, especially at night when my willpower is on the verge of collapsing..

19 days so far.. struggling, but still free of PMO
 

IRoslan

Member
Day 20 (22/6/2014)

Man, this major essay have really pulled my willpower down. I dunno, maybe due to exhaustion. Especially when ur staying up at night, alone, in front of the computer... Man, that's one dangerous setting. Seriously, I'm facing major struggle now.

I even downloaded a porn video but Thank God, I still have that tiny bit of willpower and faith to actually move my mouse and click the 'X', delete it and erased them from the recycle bin completely.

I really hope I can get the essay done ASAP. It's killing me~~  :'(
 

IRoslan

Member
fightthefight said:
Well done on deleting that video mate. It is hard, but every step like that is another victory from God.

Thanks man.. Thank God the essay is done. Time to restructure my plan again. It is hard. but I find out through exercising your willpower, you have a lot more control over it

Good luck with your stuff, man..  :)
 

IRoslan

Member
Day 21 (23/6/2014)

Thank God I've done the essay. 2250 words in a day. Never did that before. It was definitely stressful and affecting my willpower much. I got myself sidetracked quite a few times but now it's time to restructure everything, focus and beat this PMO.

I've seen that those willpower exercises did work and I have pretty much control over myself now.

Day 21 and counting... complete the 30 days target, I'm gonna get myself a new basketball sneaker!!!  8)
 

IRoslan

Member
Day 23 (25/6/2014)

I missed the report on day 22, but it was a clean day. I'm pretty happy with myself yesterday. I was exhausted at night, I know my willpower is going down, but not taking my phone into the room and looking at it before bed was a good move. I nearly fall for it, but I said NO! Cos this is where things always fall.

Then, what felt me good, someone asked me to write an article. Any article that would've interest the reader. So I wrote about how the brain works toward pornography, the rational and desire part of the brain and I talked to myself.

"Man, I'm preaching this to others. I gotta do it myself first or else I'm just another bastard hypocrite.."

Day 23 and still counting... :)
 

IRoslan

Member
Day 26 (28/6/2014)

I'm still good. Studying for my next two exams. But for some reason, I got turned on, but I don't know what. I wasn't stressful. Probably I saw some images on YouTube. I struggled a little bit and I even tried justifying my act to PMO. I kept waking up from my sleep cos the feeling was kinda strong. I think about 2-3 times I woke up and feel kinda turned on. But I managed to get out of my bed and start attending to my dawn prayers. I kinda felt good after that cos I went through the emotions, etc.

Day 26 and still counting. 4 more days till I get to purchase a new basketball sneaker~ :D
 

IRoslan

Member
Day 28 (30/6/2014)

OMG, I can't believe it. It's day 28. I've never controlled myself this far before. Currently on a 30-days program of kicking desire, to make sure the rational part of the brain dominates over the limbic system. Let's go!!!
 

Berens

Active Member
Congratulations men, i hope i will be able to archieve so many days as you. Keep going and dont give up. You archived a lot and i want to see you archieve 60 days of no PMO now.
 

IRoslan

Member
Yup Beren, planning on doing that, man. Hopefully it'll progress good. I'm planning on getting married somewhat end of this year-ish. So. I really really hope I could kick this addiction out of the way...

Thanks for the support man. Good luck on yours. I see it's nearly half way done. So keep up the pace, bro! :)
 

IRoslan

Member
Day 29 (1/7/2014)

DAY 29!!! Look at the number of days I've made. It's nearly a month. I'm 24 hours of coping my new basketball sneakers as my one month no PMO award.

Gonna go for 60 days after this.. Thanks for all your support, people. May God bless all of you with His light. :)

Nothing too major yesterday, cos basically I was focusing so much on studying for my paper this morning. I slept on my study desk. My housemate woke me up and can't think much. Just went inside the room, pulled my quilt and call it a day. I've been refraining myself from seeing any inappropriately dress women as a sign of respect. Hopefully this will last until the very last of my breath.
 

IRoslan

Member
DAY 30 (2/7/2014)

All praise and gratitude to God for making this happen. 30 days of no PMO. But for some reasons, I've reset my counter so it's back to nothingness. Which is kinda sad. But yup, here goes another 30 days of no PMO. I'm getting there. No PMO for life...

I mean, this website or forum writing sure helps a lot with the process. You get people to respond to your journal writing. You can express yourself without being judged (cos that's what usually hinder change from us.. no motivation, only discrimination). Couldn't thank enough to everyone who responded.

If people asked me how, was basically reading the posts on successful stories. And then, being in a good environment, get some good friends who do a lot good deeds around you and most importantly.. what I did was pray to God. Couldn't have done it without Him..


Just bought a new basketball sneaker on Ebay. Waiting for it to be delivered on the 10th (that's what it say's... hopefully it'll arrive about a week from now)
 
Congrats! You are doing well, I also like this forum too, having support and communication is the missing key for so many of us who are rebooting out there. Keep up the good work!
 

IRoslan

Member
Day 36 (actually maybe day 50 or so)

Cos I've reset my counter, so that's why it says there. Anyway, technically I've been away for about a month plus without posting anything. But it was a month of straight training this disgusting desire out of me. It was great, Alhamdulillah that it worked really well. The program is really cool.

So, now, to make things easier, I'm just gonna start at Day 36. So, I've extended my days to 60 days and hopefully we'll reach this goal. Just so you know, even though I've refrained myself from PMO for the last 50 days or so, I'm still having that strong urge to look at those filthy things and masturbate while I'm at it.

But just gotta keep doing this and gotta keep pushing You know, when you relapse, you collapse.

I don't wanna do the whole process again if I ever relapse...

But the more days I've refrained myself, the urge kept getting stronger. Is this normal??? Hmm

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@Newlifeforme... hey man, thanks for dropping by. Thanks, by the way. You keep up your good work as well :D
 
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