7 days in!! No porn and no fap?
I finally decided to take the plunge and stop this addiction. In the past, I’ve gone days even weeks without watching porn, but I’d eventually get back onto it because it wasn’t a serious goal. This time is going to be different! I did have a question though. I do wanna quit porn cold turkey, but masturbation I am on the fence about. I used to masturbate while viewing porn every day or every other day, but it’s been seven days for both. I do eventually want to quit masturbation as well, but I’m not going to get a girlfriend or hook up anytime soon due to working, possibly moving, and other reasons. I’m thinking if I leave masturbation without porn to once a week, then every other week and so on until I get a girlfriend or don’t feel the need to anymore. That I feel is realistic. But what do you all think? I just don’t want to relapse with doing both masturbating and viewing pornography because I haven’t masterbated.
In my experience, if you have any sort of addiction to porn, masturbating to porn or not will inevitably lead back to porn. It triggers the same type of reward system in your brain because your minds always reverts back to where it’s most comfortable. It’s a protection/coping mechanism our brains does to try and “help” us. It takes a lot of work to rewire your brain but in order for change to happen you gotta make change happen.