How do you know if youre addicted to porn? Answer the question, Can you take it or leave it? If the answer is no, if porn has become a regular part of your life and if you plan your day around ityou have a problem!
A porn addict may tell himself, Every man is into porn. Thats not true, every man is not. The porn addiction will affect every area of the porn addicts life but the most devastation is in his relationship with himself and his relationship with others.
An addict is filled with self-hatred, guilt, shame and fear. A porn addict isnt a bad person but a person in pain. Often the addict has been sexually abused or suffers from other unhealed childhood wounds. Porn is used as an escape from stress, fear, loneliness, emptiness, and rejection.
Relationships suffer because a porn addict spends more time online with the porn addiction than with his family or friends. He experiences being in a trance where several hours spent online seem like several minutes. Meanwhile those who love him and want to have time with him feel ignored, angry, unimportant and neglected.
There is no love, honor, dignity, intimacy or commitment involved in online porn and...