Dating apps

Day 21

by S

January 16, 2025 at 04:20 AM

497 upvotes

Even with my profile set to find a long term relationship, I realized that swiping on tinder and hinge is giving me a dopamine hit and excitement of meeting someone through this artificial channel just feels damaging. Not to mention how insanely sexy *normal* girls on these apps seem because I’m not watching porn. For now I’ve deleted my profiles and wanted to be safe from relapse since it started becoming a trigger. If u have dating apps my advice to let them go as well and try making organic conversations in the wild with your new found confidence.

Comments (4)

Dan•214d ago

Personally my best year was 2022-23 within that timeframe I only masturbated and watched porn like every 1 1/5 - 2 months. I might have watched it like 6 times that year. I actually almost got to the 3 month period I was at like 2 months 3 weeks.

Dan•214d ago

Yeah before a couple weeks ago I haven’t looked at porn since last years Super Bowl SMH lol. But as a result of that I’m more turned on than I was before which has resulted in more masturbation. Getting clean from this stuff will really make you understand that “two steps forward, one step back” saying

S•215d ago

I feel ya. I guess it’s also natural to feel attracted to real women and want to pursue that. Did you say you went a whole year?? That’s incredible

Dan•215d ago

I literally just got off hinge because I felt like I was just scrolling lol. I’m literally in almost the exact same position. I looked at porn like two weeks ago after not looking at it for like a year, and now I don’t even find it be enjoyable. But dating apps and thirst traps still get me sometimes.

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