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Re: Can 90 Days Undo 21 years of damage? 27 Sep 2015 05:48 #264767

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selfloathing wrote:

cordnoy wrote:

Sorry to hear that; be strong.

May I ask a question please?
[Yes you may.]
Thanks; why do you think that is (that intimacy with wife is not helpin')?

In the past, when I slipped I tried to hold off for intimacy and some times it worked. But if I hadn't looked at prn in a while it wouldn't and I would go online after she fell asleep and...
So to answer your question:
a) history of a bad routine?
b) withdrawal after a "taste"
c) because I am still fresh on my recovery journey, barely 2 weeks in?

I am sorry but I do not understand your answer to my question.

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Re: Can 90 Days Undo 21 years of damage? 30 Sep 2015 00:47 #264838

abd297 OFFLINE Gold Boarder Posts: 282 Karma: 12	I am sorry that I wasn't being clear. WE are the problem and are what need to be changed. I was trying to say that the problem isn't who WE really are deep down. If that's up for discussion now, please respond.
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Re: Can 90 Days Undo 21 years of damage? 08 Nov 2015 07:00 #268061

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Didn't know where in the forums to ask my question but here it is: I am on shlichus somewhere (as a bochur). And I have had this challenge for a while. And I've tried to do 90 day Challenge. And it is hard! Couple days here 4 days there. And then I went for 8 days. On the last day I really wanted to continue BUT got this huhelp urge. And I tried to fight it, tried to learn, go outside... But it was soo hard. It was like all this pressure and desire was more than I had when I slipped regularly.
So 2 things 1) I'm like "afraid" to go back on the 90 days because lets say I go for 2 weeks clean. The same pressure is going to come back. (unless that's how it's supposed to go, by pushing my self further each time, but that seems like it will take forever)
2) am I a Fn' hypocrite?! I help young adults, teens, adults. And I'm there.... %&##$
It sounds ridiculous in my head too. Just that the Y"H and Nefesh Habihamos is so hard to transform!

Re: Can 90 Days Undo 21 years of damage? 08 Nov 2015 08:03 #268063

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Mynameis wrote:

Strange, I had submitted a paragraph or so in response and I guess it didn't go through. I take that as a sign that it wasn't meant to be. I'll just say welcome and hatzlacha!

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Re: Can 90 Days Undo 21 years of damage? 08 Nov 2015 12:39 #268065

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Dov wrote:

...many frum people see 12 steps and recovery as 'a crusade against sin' and teach that recovery means vigilance and constant focus on kedushas habris. Even though all that really means that, at the end of the day, all we are thinking about all day long is sex and our sexuality. But that's secretly what people are attracted to! Sex sells, period...

...many have told me that even though they gain so many great tools on GYE but they get much worse by hanging around here and focusing on tahara and perfectionism against schmutz. They end up fighting sex and desires all day and all night...and it just grows in their minds even more. And to their surprise, when they leave GYE, they have far fewer falls. (Thats for some people, not all.)

Making women and their images 'the enemy', just gives their images more and more of our own power! It creates the enemy. But in reality, women are just: people. Real, live people. Hashem loves women just as he loves men - he even cares for and gives life with great love to the goyim - even to the shiksas dressed immodestly in the street. The Kotzker (I think) said that if one wrestles all day with dirty people gets all covered with mud from head to toe - even if he wins! Instead, we in SA usually just surrender women we feel attracted to and their images. And if we find ourselves thinking about them and obsessing over them, we just pray for them. Not for them to 'do Teshuvah and dress normal', but for their health, for their husbands to be well and treat them right, for their children not to have tragedies or get sick, for them to discover the relationship Hashem wants to have with them - yes He even wants to have a relationship with the pritzusdikeh shiksa, for he knows that she knows no better and rachamov al kol ma'asov..
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Re: Can 90 Days Undo 21 years of damage? 08 Nov 2015 12:55 #268067

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serenity wrote:

Mynameis wrote:

Strange, I had submitted a paragraph or so in response and I guess it didn't go through. I take that as a sign that it wasn't meant to be. I'll just say welcome and .hatzlacha!

I have that happen from my phone as well from time to time.

I welcome you as well and wish you hatzlachah. Maybe start your own thread in the "introduce yourself" section.

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Re: Can 90 Days Undo 21 years of damage? 16 Nov 2015 03:41 #268690

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Re: Can 90 Days Undo 21 years of damage? 16 Nov 2015 03:48 #268693

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Re: Can 90 Days Undo 21 years of damage? 23 Oct 2020 16:39 #356622

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So, after 5 years of ups and downs, (I kind of stopped using the forum... but that was a mistake) I am back here looking for support.
My last year has been a struggle, and I hope you will indulge me if I explain why, and it led me to fall (frequently)...
It started last Tishrei, when my partner (another frum yid) stole the company (that I had spent the last 5 years building) by executing an underhanded trick he had set up when we set up our partnership agreement. All the sleepless night, the tens of thousands of dollars I had invested, the reputation I had spend years building, were all gone in a flash.
Horrified, I became a shell of the man I was, I find hard to make the mot basic decision enymore, even something as simple as "what should I eat for lunch/dinner"

After a couple of months I managed to find a (low paying) job, but then Covid hit, and as the newest member of the company, I was the first one let go of...

Suffice it to say, my mental state went into a tailspin, and with it, my resolve that enabled me to stop the bad habits in my life. From Putting back on all the weight I had lost (and more), to the biggest monkey on my back online P*rn.

But then, last week, my teenage son came to me with his struggles. We spoke for a while, talking about the effects that this taivoh has on the neshomoh, the mind, the people around us, and what it spells out for him in the long term if he doesn't find a way from falling in too deep too soon...

After our talk, which of course incorporated much of what I learned through this forum, as well as thenewdrug and "heart mind world", and a heaping helping of stories about "friends" and what they went through/experienced, I realized that I need to get healthy in order to help him get healthy...

So here I am, back on the horse, and doing my utmost to stave off this monster. I have a new motivator to add to my arsenal, I pray to Hashem that this time I can make it stick...

I can't change my name on this forum, but I can change my attitude.
I won't loathe myself. I hate what I have done and I hate where it put me, but that isn't me.

I will find a way to climb out of the cesspool I have fallen in, I will educate myself and come out stronger spiritually, healthily, mentally, and financially. I am fully in Hashem's hands, and I won't let anything pull me down again!

I am on my way (one day at a time) back to one week, to 30 days, to 90 days, and to a life that I can be proud of.

I appreciated all of your comfort and guidance last time, and I know that with the right resources I can make it stick this time.

Re: Can 90 Days Undo 21 years of damage? 27 Oct 2020 04:35 #356738

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Re: Can 90 Days Undo 21 years of damage? 29 Oct 2020 00:58 #356838

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Re: Can 90 Days Undo 21 years of damage? 29 Oct 2020 04:43 #356848

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