Watching Porn Killed My Self-Confidence and Made Me Hate My Body Article
“I developed a huge lack of self-confidence, I started to hate my body and I didn’t know how to start and keep real relationships.”
“I developed a huge lack of self-confidence, I started to hate my body and I didn’t know how to start and keep real relationships.”
“Somehow I got the sick, twisted idea in my head that as long as my boyfriend was hooked to porn, I would have to get skinnier.”
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“That moment changed me. Rebecca’s compassion didn’t make me complacent; it motivated me more than anyone or anything else ever could.”
“We communicate so much more. We are more confident with each other. We are more relaxed during sex. It feels like there’s a spark there.”
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“My isolation saw to the destruction of my marriage. I took what was entrusted to me and broke it. My nightmare became reality. But I wanted to fix it.”
“He doesn’t know that every time we are intimate, I can only think about how he’s probably wishing I looked like the girls in porn and doing things that they do.”
“I finally believe I am the man that my wife deserves. We are very grateful for each of our choices that led to us staying together and valuing our marriage above all else.”
“With my first relationship, and most relationships after, my primary focus was on having sex. Yet, I didn’t understand how to have real sex because of what I had seen in porn over the years.”
“I began to resent myself for this porn obsession I couldn’t get over, and I was told by peers and society that it was a ‘natural part of growing from a boy to a man.'”