The best advice for my eyes!

“Help me turn my eyes away from illusions So that I pursue only that which is true; Drench my soul with life as I walk in your paths.” First thing I read this morning, and wrote, it is so perfect! Porn is an illusion of good healthy sexual experience. Free from that bandage, I can pursue true sexual relationship with my wife…for the 18 years I was in this addiction before I got married, I could have been pursuing real relationships with people instead of isolating and making my brain a mess that has interfered with real freedom of our married relationship for our 24 years together…but I’m pursuing better while heartedly and while spiritually now, with support here and professionally… And look at what Psalm 119:37 says follows when we turn our eyes away from illusion and pursue only truth: God drenches our soul with LIFE and He helps us walk in His paths!—He restores the life we allowed evil to destroy, like the ice challenge, He drenches us with LIFE, growth, restoration! And the helps us walk in right paths, to stick to the pledge, to rewire our brains and leave this old addiction in the past and pursue radiant new life! For me, I get great strength and confidence to end this 43 year addiction by my faith. I, personally, find my faith in God through salvation in Jesus Christ by accepting forgiveness of my sins-accepting Jesus’s death on the cross as payment in full for my sins. That allows me to enter into a right relationship with God and I’ve submitted myself to live my life for Him. If you want to talk more about my flavor of faith, I’ll be happy to oblige in the Christian Team or I guess here, since I started with a Bible verse. I mainly want to encourage everyone and not shut off or out anyone getting to deep into my faith. But I hope those who don’t share it would be interested. Yes, I had this faith most of the time I had the addiction I’m now committed to ending. Not going to pretend I was perfect or close. I was a kid with a lot of mental health type problems growing up in the 70’s, when therapy was, “shut up or I’ll give you something to cry about”, “you’re grounded for XX weeks” (my 7th grade year, when I discovered masturbation and my dad’s extensive porn collection, I was grounded all but 7 days), my athletic older step-brother found me weak and beat me up regularly, my best friend raped me…I retreated to the safety and dopamine of taking care of myself. It’s a big challenge now to take on giving this up, but my relationship with my wife and my God are more important. My health and happiness are more important. My brain functioning normally is more important. So I’m getting help being the QUITTR app through professional therapists and a psychiatrist, my support team, my faith and more. And, as I can, I’ll try to be supportive of others and encourage you in your efforts to quit young and commit to be pure now. I wish I had 43 years ago!