Ooma
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Post by Ooma on Jun 12, 2023 22:50:22 GMT -7
Hi! I’m married 51 years in 2 weeks and the reality of my husbands porn addiction is weighing so heavy on my heart and soul. I’ve know it to be a problem for years…I didn’t know, until recently, that it has been our entire marriage! It has stolen our intimacy, closeness, and Lives as a married couple. He has joined an SA group in the last month because I finally confronted him realizing it has not just been a once in a while thing! Im so angry, sad, all over the place with this. We had a talk yesterday and I’m just not sure what to do. How do you throw 51 years of marriage down the drain?! I go from being so angry that I’m ready to isolate from him to feeling compassion wondering where we go from here. It brings tears just thinking and talking about this here! He is a recovering alcoholic of 28 years and now this!!!! I’m 72 now and where do we go from here! I don’t know how to handle this. Do I go on vacation with him? Do I stand my ground and stay angry? Where do we go from here? How do I handle my pain from this? I know it will come from the Lord…but I need an outline or specifics here on what has helped others in this spot. I’m trying to find the newcomers call spot again unsuccessfully. Thanks for being here! I’m Just really mad that I am here! Alcoholism was tough and now this! I’m worn out mentally and physically right now,
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Post by Ɖσмιиιc on Jun 12, 2023 23:19:36 GMT -7
Dear God, please help this marriage to heal from this pain. In Jesus' name. Amen.
I am like your husband too. My wife is like you. Try to see him, as sick, so you would understand what Jesus said when He said "that the sick need a doctor". Your husband needs Jesus. That is the one and only answer. What does that even look like? I'm 41 and we have been married for 20 years, and I had my issues long before I even met my wife. Age 5 I was involved in my own sexual immorality, hard core porn at adolescence and when my wife first found porn (while a few years into the marriage and pregnant with our first son) she wanted to divorce me. It gets a lot worse.
What finally got me to stop that cycle was a tramatic experience. After trying many things, AA, SA, I told my Pastor and he told me to tell my wife and I did. This time is was beyond porn but massage parlors. She left me, crushed. Taking our three children. My friend took me in, him with his pregnant wife. They were like good samaritans to me. I met with a drug addiction counselor and he told me that I was dead inside and would I want my children to know their father who jerked himself off to hell? I said no. He shared the gospel with me. I read in the Bible that say how Christ was able to raise the dead. I knew I was dead, despite my profession of being a Christian, and raised in the church my entire life. I cried out to the Lord and felt His love for me that day. This was in 2016. I had 4 1/2 years of sexual sobriety. Many might of envied me but I was not sober at all. Just because a man can "not" jack off doesn't mean he is 'sober'. He has to do this.
1. Proverbs 28:13 2. Romans 10:9
and be for real.
He has treated his penis, his worship of female or male body parts as a god. See Romans 1, towards the end when it says "they worshipped and served the creation rather than the Creator"
Now if you go to him saying "Your god is your ****" He is gonna hate you. He is gonna hate you because he knows it's true and the sinful Satanic nature in all of us, will retaliate to find faults for you. He is gonna say things like "if you did this for me, I would not be seeking it else where" which is a lie from hell. I know. why? My wife did ANYTHING I wanted, gave her all to me, YET, I still was not happy with her breasts to seeks the breasts of another, why? I loved, I worshiped at that unholy, Satanic, alter, of a false religion of "my and her body parts". Oh, my love, my body parts. THAT is the truth.
I don't care what anyone else says.
Jesus said "You would know them by their fruits"
My wife was my idol my women were my idols my porn were my idols
All I saw was women, body parts, my orgasm, over and over, as the lying porn preaches and teaches their own false message.
Your husband has to know about Jesus and the glorious gospel.
Nothing else is gonna work.
SA will only teach him to "not jack off" and "not watch porn"
Sorry but that is still short of Matthew 5:27-30.
any and all lust is adultery.
Say he gets 10 years of technical sobriety, hoorah hoorah, no NOT hoorah, Jesus was watching in those 10 years to see if there was even a hint of sexual immorality. Was there? Only God knows.
Now, your husband needs SA for a time being, but he must not let that group, secular group tell him to "create a HP (Higher power) because there is only One. His name is Jesus Christ. Hallelujah!
He needs to work the steps, go to the meetings, get a sponsor, that's all good but the issue is our willpower, our heart,
We need to, according to Jesus, be BORN AGAIN.
NO 12 step program can make us born again.
Now here is the lie.
"I am a Christian already but I struggle"
ummm,, really?
The Bible says to test yourself and if we do, the Holy Spirit will convict us of our sins and we will turn from them, and DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO FOLLOW AND LOVE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, and in that, the effect is loving you back, with real love, horny for you, being infactuated with your breasts (Proverbs 5-7) says.
When I am not turn everyone women I see into my personal little sex toy (abomination) my wife is super pretty and I want her but not only her but I want her to love me back.
That is his part and God can and will help him, if he is serious, if he takes his salvation seriously.
Not trying to scare you or him or me but I also struggle with assurance of salvation but I also get fed the Word of God.
Ask honestly, honestly, how do I know I am not the ones in Matthew 7:21-23 who call Jesus "Lord, Lord" yet the Lord will say "I never knew you (insert your name here)"
Does that freak you me him out? It does to me.
If he is freaked out? good. Now let the love of God enter in to soothe and feel Jesus' sacrifice on the cross for his sins, to know God is FOR the sinner is great news.
I can't tell you what my wife did to heal, in fact, when I am upset, angry, I allow the enemy satan to once again tempt my wife to lie to her that "Oh dominic is back to it again" because she tells me when I am mad/angry, she thinks it's me "leaving her" which implies I'm with something/someone else"
You are upset and should be You are hurt and that is normal and natural.
Turn it around now.
If I imagine my wife, in bed with another man, I would be pissed off too
So when we men think like that, we would not want that other immoral women.
many times I made the mistake of "demanding" my wife to forgive me for "that was the Christ-like way" and she only got upset. How dare I? But that was me. Now I don't do that because I know I'm more evil to demand her to forgive me. The Holy Spirit doesn't do that. He is kind and convicts of sins. The devil will misuse and turn the Word of God upside down and pervert it.
Now in Ephesians it says "Husbands love your wife as Christ loves the church"
Is is loving to be worshiping a fake immoral women, who is hell-bound? Is it loving to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ? is it loving to his wife (you)? Is it loving to that porn actress who also have her own sins, has a father, and a Heavenly Father who wishes she is not like this?
I can only hope you pray to God for his salvation and /or his walk with the Lord which it is now. God knows. It will be a healing for you.
Everytime he lusts, he is believing a lie of Satan. Does that concern you? I hope you will see him as "sick" so you can pray for his "sickness" not as an excuse but he is deceived by the Satan. I am not trying to make light of this sins, but every man is tempted when he sees flesh. His mind and heart and willpower are all under attack and his faith.
he has to battle and surrender to Jesus saying "No, the Bible says" Thou shalt not commit adultery" and "flee sexual immorality" (Matthew 4).
Also, I am not good and free now but better off.
After porn, I thought I was OK and strong and then started with different forms of sexual immorality so all porn, flirting, whatever else to include emotional affairs, inappropriate contacts must be removed"
new phone number, new emails, saying "no" and "ignore" the enemy.
I hope other Christian women will pray for and comfort you. I hope your husband will talk to a guy, who knows the Lord, and get help. Pride is another killer. Men have pride and can't ask for help. I did for years until I had to ask for help. I still have it too.
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Post by KevinesKay on Jun 13, 2023 13:45:50 GMT -7
Hi Ooma, What you're going through is very normal and common. Betrayal trauma. This is hard to deal with. And I don't have any quick solutions. God is truly bigger than all of this, though. So it's good that you have Him to guide you and offer strength. mike wrote a good book, The Wife's Heart. You may have read it already. But I found it's message to be very practical for wives dealing with this. There's also zoom prayer meetings that SandyJWE organizes weekly. If you're interested, I can give you more details. I highly recommend it. Getting support is essential during this process. Thank you for sharing. Our hearts and prayers are with you and your husband.
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Post by KevinesKay on Jun 13, 2023 14:07:27 GMT -7
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Post by Ɖσмιиιc on Jun 14, 2023 0:27:55 GMT -7
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Post by savagetribe on Jun 19, 2023 7:53:03 GMT -7
The wife's heart book is fantastic as I just got done reading it. It's in the blazing grace bookstore. It will give you tools and heathy boundary considerations. Realizing your husband is not your god and he is flawed is something that you will be on a journey to reconcile. You are devastated right now and in shock so it's important to seek God with all of you. Prayer, and cry out to him. However, your husband has to stop his behavior immediately and seek help. Sometimes he may fall but constantly seeking God and accountability from other Brothers in Christ is the key. We are human, we are sinners, and we mess up. A repentant heart, a willing heart to allow God to change his character is paramount. This is a journey for him and there are things in his past that I call Satan's seed which started this course in his life. It probably is from an early age and most men have Daddy issues so the 8 week course for him is probably the best bet. He can start off in The road to Grace but recovery in the 8 week course by blazing grace will help kickstart his cold heart. He will need accountability with other men to help in his journey. You will need support from other women as well. Women who are beneficial for you to get through the emotional rollercoaster ride and this is normal. Don't think you are alone because that's what Satan wants you to feel. I pray for you and your husband. Please don't hesitate to reach out to the blazing grace team. We have men's web group on Friday nights at 8pm eastern so if he wants to attend you can post back and one of us will get back with you. There is nothing that God cannot fix or heal. He is there for you and loves you.
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