Thursday, March 10, 2011

Wanted: 50 Happily Monogamous Former Porn Junkies


Darin & Elise's Story

I was in a long and sordid relationship of 6 years, when just last year I met the love of my life and experienced the most serendipitous certainty I have ever come to know. So much certainty in fact, that I moved across the country to be with him. Perfect math. It just so happened that he had an addiction to porn. Okay, almost perfect math...

His addiction to porn was something I gathered immediately upon our first physical encounter. Something I could sense in his body, but not something that was spoken aloud. It did not stop me from moving out to be with him however, because I viewed it as a minor glitch in his Matrix, if you will.
Later on, I realized that it was going to inhibit the quality of our physical relationship more than I initially assumed... [Read more]


Alex & Tonya's Story


Even after I'd been off porn for almost a year, Tonya still seemed distant, disinterested, disconnected. 


“Oh, no!” I thought, “She’s gotten used to my emotional absence and moved on with her life without me!” 


I believed that we’d never get back the friendship and closeness we once shared—or anything near it. She used to refer to me as “her miracle” to her friends. I loved her kids, solved her financial problems. 


Whatever I once was to her, I had become her knight in tarnished armor... [Read more]