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Re: Glad to be here 29 Nov 2018 15:56 #337606

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lionking wrote on 29 Nov 2018 13:51:

cordnoy wrote on 29 Nov 2018 07:19:

Cordroy ain't here!

The big question is, WHY NOT??!
Perhaps you feel like you have nothing to gain from being on the forums, however others gained tremendously from you over the years.
I beg you pardon, if the reason is family and time constraints. Please don't forsake us.
Thanks!

.Lion, when I wrote that cords is still here, I couldn't resist an old tease by writing Cordroy.  Cordnoy responded that Cordroy isn't here. Really he never was.
Sorry for confusing you. :-)
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Re: Glad to be here 29 Nov 2018 17:33 #337608

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stillgoing wrote on 29 Nov 2018 15:56:

lionking wrote on 29 Nov 2018 13:51:

cordnoy wrote on 29 Nov 2018 07:19:

Cordroy ain't here!

The big question is, WHY NOT??!
Perhaps you feel like you have nothing to gain from being on the forums, however others gained tremendously from you over the years.
I beg you pardon, if the reason is family and time constraints. Please don't forsake us.
Thanks!

.Lion, when I wrote that cords is still here, I couldn't resist an old tease by writing Cordroy.  Cordnoy responded that Cordroy isn't here. Really he never was.
Sorry for confusing you. :-)


I didn't notice the misspell. Perhaps I was under some spell. However my question remains as per the following quote below.
cordnoy wrote on 28 Nov 2018 05:44:

serenity wrote on 27 Nov 2018 20:14:

...
My first day here in 2015 Cordnoy (he still around?) asked me if I was ready to stop struggling!?
...

No, he's not.
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Re: Glad to be here 29 Nov 2018 22:17 #337612

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I was checking back in and I was surprised to see my thread bumped up.  I usually don't remember what I wrote, but I remember that fruit fly post. 

I'm online listening to Bill S.  A man with truly amazing sobriety and humility. 
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--"To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing." Mark Twain
--"If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking (or lusting), you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic (or sexaholic)." AA Big Book P. 45. Parenthesis added.
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Re: Glad to be here 20 Aug 2019 04:01 #342949

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serenity wrote on 23 Jul 2017 03:53:
If you know anything about cats, you may appreciate this comparison to addiction. Cats are very instinctual (as I'm sure other animals are as well) and when their instincts take over they can be hard if not impossible to redirect. 

A friend of mine was saying how his cat would go out at night in the snow and come back all beat up. It had an injured leg and was not in the best of shape. And yet still the next night there was some other cat out there that he was pursuing and he would charge out into the cold and snow in pursuit. Are we much different when our desires take over and we are recklessly driven after something to fulfill them.

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Re: Glad to be here 28 Jan 2020 04:11 #346993

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Some untruths that I used to believe or tell myself
  • I have to act out
  • I can just watch a little and I won't act out
  • My world will end if anyone finds out
  • Acting out starts when I touch myself or go to a porn site and that's when I lose power

What I have learned
  • II don't have to act out
  • I just watch a little I will act out 
  • I need to trusted people to share with who share my experiences and can provide peer support
  • The loss of power starts way earlier. I have to know for myself what actions, feelings and other things lead me to acting out.
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--"ולא המדרש עיקר, אלא המעשה"
--"To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing." Mark Twain
--"If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking (or lusting), you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic (or sexaholic)." AA Big Book P. 45. Parenthesis added.
--You hit rock bottom when you decide to stop digging.

Re: Glad to be here 28 Jan 2020 14:52 #347002

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serenity wrote on 28 Jan 2020 04:11:
Some untruths that I used to believe or tell myself
  • I have to act out
  • I can just watch a little and I won't act out
  • My world will end if anyone finds out
  • Acting out starts when I touch myself or go to a porn site and that's when I lose power

What I have learned
  • II don't have to act out
  • I just watch a little I will act out
  • I need to trusted people to share with who share my experiences and can provide peer support
  • The loss of power starts way earlier. I have to know for myself what actions, feelings and other things lead me to acting out.


Good to hear from you old buddy, how goes it?
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"The right thin' to do and the hard thin' to do are usually the same."

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Re: Glad to be here 24 Feb 2020 00:31 #347512

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Reb Cordnoy. Good to hear from you as well! B"h doing well. Trying to do the best I can one day at a time. 
Much Hatzlacha!

My Threads:
Glad to be here
Don't slip it hurts
Lions & Tigers & Internet, Oh My!

--"ולא המדרש עיקר, אלא המעשה"
--"To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing." Mark Twain
--"If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking (or lusting), you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic (or sexaholic)." AA Big Book P. 45. Parenthesis added.
--You hit rock bottom when you decide to stop digging.
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