It's kinda disturbing that there is no post here

[dioofthesky]

....just an observation. No one has overcome porn?

[FoolishMind]

Hi Doofthesky, good observation! But I can assure you a number of people really have controlled the addiction and now living considerably fuller lives.

This site is growing in stages, hence there will be small subforums, that are not neccessarily used as yet.

FM

[Daniel]

dioofthesky,

I poked around in here a couple weeks ago and made the same observation. Even FM had not published in here! HOWEVER,

[Thank God] I am 146 days, 13 hours, 51 minutes into my new Freedom.

And I am happier, more fulfilled, more in love, enjoying life more, engaged with my kids more, getting into my hobbies more, reading more, worshipping better, way more self-confidence, lapping up the joys of a clean conscience, where my closest friends and family know what a turd I've been but they choose to love me anyway. Wow.

I've not spelled it out like that before. I could go on and on, PTL!

But all of us together can go farther and I believe we will.

The Freedom has to start somewhere.

For what it's worth,

Daniel

[dave42]

Yep, I just celebrated 6 months! Only three tiny slip ups during that time: each lasted less than a minute and involved minimal porn (two of these were in a regular book store looking quickly through art books of nudes, which was a stupid thing for me to be doing, but I guess I'm trying to show that even the 3 slip ups weren't very bad. The third slip up was worse: at home, looking at a site I shouldn't have been looking at, but it only lasted 45 seconds or so.) I'm hoping to make it to one year!

To Daniel and Dioofthesky: I know that when I first came to this site 6 months ago, I asked if there was someone who could counsel me who had been "clean" for at least a year, and I was disappointed that no one stepped forward. But, someone, either Foolish Mind or Dominus, I think, said that I was welcome and that lots of guys here at various stages of recovery could help me. So

[dave42]

So, what I'm trying to say (but I hit the post button by accident) is hang in there! It's such an old concept from AA, but it's one day at a time. And sometimes it's just, I gotta get through the next 2 hours.