Post-Script

The post-script to yesterday’s post (does that make it a post-post? I digress) is that hitting the bottom as I did finally shook me into action. I don’t know why it was different to any other binge I’ve been on, or why (or even if) this will be more successful than my previous attempts to quit.

The prayer and purge last Friday did start to improve the way I felt about things. Putting my confession into words yesterday helped more. On Sunday I dragged myself to church, where at one time I wouldn’t have bothered without my wife’s encouragement. That helped too.

I made one more visit to that porn site – a fleeting one, just to check my subscription had been cancelled and I couldn’t access it. There was an enormous sense of relief when it denied me access! New parental controls (well, spousal controls) are now firmly in place.

I’m not ‘cured’ by any means; addictions don’t work like that, and there will be many more blogs of therapy to come…