Gents - Could use some chizuk. Im away on a business trip for 4 days, first time in a while. Ive been doing great for couple years now, but I'm finding the YH is really clawing at me. Strongest taivos in a while. I'm even worried to go to sleep. Thoughts? Ideas? May we all be strong together.

Perhaps you're worried you'll fall because you're wife is worried [that's what you wrote in your old posts]. Try to get it out of your mind, and like you said "May we all be strong together. "

Hi there Ez,

Trying to think what I would do in your shoes:
I guess I would first and foremost daven to Hashem for assistance and salvation.
I would avoid any sips of lust like a plague (we all know how that apply to ourselves).
I would resolve to do whatever it takes to be clean TODAY!
I would keep in touch with the GYE community, and try my best not to disappoint them.

Hatzlacha rabbah

MT

Each day you are away from home sit down somewhere and try to relax, then visualize yourself back home after your trip. You can look your wife in the eye with a smile on your face, she smiles back. You go to shul and see other yidden, the rav of the shul, and you feel glad that you did not fall.

That might generate some motivation.

I would try really hard to be around people can you go shopping anywhere for your wife or kids.... If not stay in the lobby for a while and think that Hashem is putting you to the test good luck and what a zcut u get from Hashem, he loves you so much he knows that he can only give you such a test to Pass!!!!!

Thanks, holding strong.

I heard from someone this morning that he was advised to cover the TV with a towel as soon as he arrived in his hotel room. That served as a reminder...

He was in the hotel room for a week & stayed clean.

guys
i cant thank you for the advice. i got out of the hotel after meeting finished, walked around the town a bit, and found a guy with his float plane on the water...took him up for a 45 minute scenic flight...saw a school of orcas jumping off the coast...made my day...much better than sitting in the room trying to white knuckle my way through the rest of the day.
ez

Awesome I love Orcas! ;D

Hang in there, you're giving us all strength!

Day 2, holding steady. Ez

Very good, keep up the good work.
Btw, let's make a deal? If you will be clean for further 12 days I will put 5 euro to tzedoko, if not, you will out 25
Nu, wanna try? (pm me, i might forget to check this thread)

ezrasyid wrote on 14 Aug 2012 03:24:

While I dont think I predicted you hatzlacha, I did have an entirely unprompted dream about Orca whals the other day. I had no idea why. Either way, I', glad you're doing well! It serves as a reminder that the way to win to fight is not to fight actively, but to walk away and do something productive, like check out the whales! :D

Check out this thread: www.guardyoureyes.org/forum/index.php?topic=2665.msg74835#msg74835. Much hatzlacha