Today is my first day on NoFap. Everything I've read so far has given me hope for the first time in a long time. My commitment is to return to this web site whenever I have the urge to view internet porn, at minimum. I'm about to see if I can find an accountability partner, preferably another older guy like me. Wish me luck, everyone!
I'm not as old as you (I don't mean that in any way as an insult, by the way), but welcome to the site and I wish you the best!
Thanks for the welcome and good wishes! So far, so good. At the moment, I'm feeling less stress than usual, and am enjoying it. We'll see what tomorrow brings. Meanwhile, I'm going to try to find out how to start progress bars like the nifty ones in your reply.
It's my third day without porn. My commitment is no porn for seven days, followed by an additional commitment. As it happens, I haven't had any sex, either, not even M, these past three days. It feels more challenging today than it did yesterday. I think checking in on this web site is what's keeping me from chasing on-line pornography today. I'm grateful that this site is here. I'll get through today. I'll deal with tomorrow when tomorrow comes.
Today is day 7! The seven days have gone by faster than I expected. I'm committing now to another 7. I noticed the urge to return to porn while I was meditating (and stressed) earlier this morning, so I'm back on the nofap website instead, which helps me a lot. Thanks for being here, folks!
Stress will do it. It's an urge to return to the familiar feeling you have when engaged in PMO. The brain needs to be rewired to not look for that and, I'm persuaded, over time the brain will do exactly that if we can resist the urge to PMO and find other things to do.
I'm surprised and grateful to report that I've reached day 15. It's not always a walk in the park. That's why I'm back on-line today giving this progress report. For me, the greatest thing about this web site is that it exists as an alternative to porn sites. When I'm feeling the urge to go on-line for porn, I come to this site instead. There is a mix of emotions welling within me that I don't fully understand, and from which I feel disconnected and unable to experience. Whatever is going on inside me, it coincides with my urge to search for porn. Being horny and lonely seems to magnify it. Being able to read about other folks' experiences as they try to stop habitual use of pixels for sexual arousal makes a huge difference for me. I think I'm pre-wired to be overwhelmed by sexual arousal, so the trick for me is to avoid the on-line images that get me started. There are things I see, hear, smell, and feel in real life that can get me started, too, but in a milder way that seems manageable for me. It's the potentially huge flow of on-line visual stimulation seems to be my biggest and most overwhelming problem. Reading about other people's efforts to deal with porn addiction gives me comfort and encouragement. Thanks for being here, everybody! I'm committing to an additional seven days. And even if I falter, I'll be back.
