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Porn provides a counterfeit of love and human intimacy. Love is designed to give you joy and pleasure but also to elevate you and make you better through worki

Porn provides a counterfeit of love and human intimacy. Love is designed to give you joy and pleasure but also to elevate you and make you better through working to improve a relationship by making your partner happy. To have someone to serve while also being served in turn as you sacrifice together to work for mutual goals. While also providing posterity, which also adds to your happiness as well as require fulfilling work. Porn provides an illusion of love with no work and no lasting happiness or satisfaction. It's highly addictive. It harms everyone involved, you and especially the women. Turning them into objects instead of people with needs that are being violated by being remotely consumed by the viewers. Making you less capable of true love by rewiring your brain to expect the counterfeit. You can't really get a marriage to blossom while addicted to porn, you just can't. Men can build women up or take from them (even remotely) and by doing so tear them down. Women don't like being objectified.

randomtwiddler 4y ago
Getting more personal, I was addicted to porn for over 20 years and it made my marriage almost impossible and I almost lost it. It wasn't until I quit that it blossomed in many ways. Being free of it, I'm experiencing real love which I now realize was out of reach previously because of my addiction. It's much more fulfilling and worth every effort. I could not see the self damage nor the effect on others my habit of lust created while I was ensnared by it. Getting free wasn't as easy as I thought either. I had stopped viewing for six years, but I still lusted after the women I came across. Consuming then visually from a distance. These practices still held me back in my marriage, my joy and ability to love and even be loved, even though I made no moves to court others and at least had the appearance of faithfulness. Seeking God above can grant you power over any addiction. Lean on Him to help you.

randomtwiddler 4y ago

Getting more personal, I was addicted to porn for over 20 years and it made my marriage almost impossible and I almost lost it. It wasn't until I quit that it blossomed in many ways. Being free of it, I'm experiencing real love which I now realize was out of reach previously because of my addiction. It's much more fulfilling and worth every effort. I could not see the self damage nor the effect on others my habit of lust created while I was ensnared by it. Getting free wasn't as easy as I thought either. I had stopped viewing for six years, but I still lusted after the women I came across. Consuming then visually from a distance. These practices still held me back in my marriage, my joy and ability to love and even be loved, even though I made no moves to court others and at least had the appearance of faithfulness. Seeking God above can grant you power over any addiction. Lean on Him to help you.