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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...

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 op...

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 ...

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 ...

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 i...

Something happened a few minutes ago that I thought was amazing: I was about to fall. It was after a long day of temptation, at about 11:15PM, and as I was about to start acting out, I heard someone try the handle of my front door! I immediately ran upstairs to tell my ...

I remember once when I was a child I had a very close relationship with Hashem. Then over the years I only checked in once in a while. By my twenties I knew He was here, but I wasn't about to be another "true believer". I needed proof. So I told Him, "I'm not goin...

Two members recently signed up as sponsors for our partner/sponsor program and wrote as follows: Before I began recovery I had built up about 25 years or so of addictive behaviors and attitudes neatly intertwined with depression, resentment, and bitterness. Toda...

In Jan 2012, a boy wrote: I discovered GYE at age 14 while travelling in Israel, and I am now 16 and have been clean for two years thanks to the great support! After falling today, I signed up to GYE finally with my own account and I am very optimistic that I should r...

On ******, 2015 4:26:18 PM **********@gmail.com wrote: ... The ladies on GYE are well meaning but I have no good reason for keeping the marriage at this point. I need their support but I do not understand why they don't get out also. Do you have guidelines on how...