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; A wife wrote a letter to GYE: Your site was exactly what I needed when I signed up. I was a newlywed who had just found out about my husband's struggle and didn't know where to turn. Shocked, hurt, overwhelmed and frightened, I came across your site and found the section for spouses. Reading s...

I came to GYE website about 10 years ago, because I was looking at porn once a week on my phone. I was learning in yeshivah at the time. I ;wasn't ;a huge consumer of porn, but I always felt terrible about it. I think I tried every one of the tools on the ;site at one point or another. Eventuall...

After being sober for almost a year and just falling recently again, I want to share what I think the main point in our struggle is. ; I have no doubt that one of the main reasons I fell is because ;I got comfortable in this struggle. Not only did I get comfortable, I WANTED TO FORGET THAT I HA...

; To all those that say there are no physical side effects/danger to p&m addiction (as opposed to hard drugs), here is my story. I've been going through a hard time lately and acting out more frequently then in the past. After one such incident, I began to have physical discomfort. Within a...

As my wedding day approaches, I feel it as an obligation to tell you a bit of my story, and how GYE came to the rescue and brought me to where I am now. I was born and raised in a very frum community in Brooklyn, where I lived in a very abusive home. My parents have been and still are the worst t...

I am known as a very good bachur and I learned in all the ;top yeshivas. I have struggled with these issues for years and years, which ruined my geshmak in learning and davening. I have tried many times to stop and was never able to do it. Eventually, I gave up and assumed there was simply no way...

Around a year ago, I was preparing my wife's leichter on Friday morning after she left to go to work, when something hit me. Had this been a few months earlier, I would have been in the bathroom watching porn instead of preparing the leichter. My sobriety gave me the opportunity to live my life...

I want to tell you guys that since I've been here last, in the past 3 months my life has been changed completely thanks to Gd, to this program of 12 steps of recovery and the Big Book. ;My relationship with my wife has changed, my relationship with my kids has changed, my relationship with other ...

I'm a teenager. I was out of hope. I couldn't stop; it was painful to stop and the desires kept coming. So I decided to learn about wasting seed in general, and when I found out that what I'm doing is a severe sin every time I would be tempted I would speak to Hashem, my Father, about my issues a...

From 9:30 last night until 2 o'clock in the morning, my wife and I were building a new large closet. For the first hour and a half our children were helping. But then, obviously, it was bedtime... I am very tense about various things in my life: making money; how I fit into my community; what th...