Reset, with a positive goal
Day 0
by Michael Johnson
49 upvotes
I was on a 12 day streak, but only from not watching porn. I’d say to myself that masturbation without porn is fine, I don’t need to reset for that. But it was only to feed my own pride. Thinking I’m on a great streak when essentially i was just as much a slave to lustful thinking than i was watching this stuff. So i reset my streak, and this time my streak will mean abstaining from porn and masturbation. Seeing as there’s this amazing woman I’m interested in and i cant allow this stuff to make me a weak man who cant even pursue a great woman
Same experience for me. I started out saying it’s fine, I’ll let myself masturbate once a week or something, but at the end of the day, it actually made it harder. It was a slippery slope for me, so I’m fully abstaining from both. To each their own, but I think it’s the stronger way to push for the reset we’re all trying to achieve.