Porn Addiction as an Ex-Mormon
I 26m have been addicted to porn as long as I can remember. There is so much shame and guilt built up around it that it has created a never ending shame loop. I genuinely don’t know how to get out of it. My gf 24f is also ex mormon. She is also heavily against porn. She knew when we first started dating that I watched porn and initially she seemed fine with it. Well eventually she put down a boundary that I needed to stop watching porn or else. I told her I would stop. I tried but I couldn’t. Now 2 years later she found out I still struggle with it. I have so much guilt and shame around it that I find myself mad at her because I feel like that 15 year old boy again that continued to struggle and never felt like he was enough because he was constantly having to confess for all these sins. She asked how I was able to lie for so long about being porn free and all I could say was that’s what I had done my whole life. I learned that you had to lie and tuck all the sins away in order to feel loved from my community. I don’t know if this even makes sense but I just needed to tell someone.