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GodGoesOn

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My Marriage

We were just married this May 2nd after living together for 3 years and conceiving a child 7 months ago, since the beginning I've known he was addicted to porn at first I snuck through his phone and never spoke of it.. then once I've seen it one to many times I tried to talk to him about it but he would go straight to bed no matter what time of day and ignore me. So I stopped trying I stopped looking but even though I stopped looking I still found out by mistake, and he would know when I did because I would be crying and silent so h would immediately pick up his phone to see that I found out, and he eventually told me he would never do it again,but I always ran into it down the road, I got to the point to where I didn't trust him when he said he wouldn't do it again and didn't accept his "I'm sorry" because deep down I felt like he was more sorry that he got caught than he was for the actual action. So I stayed silent but broken and I knew he knew how I felt. But it felt like he didn't care. So when we decided to get married our pastor had asked us to separate for a little more than a month, so I moved in with my parents and we also were going through marriage counseling, and for the first time in a very long time I trusted that he stopped watching porn, and one night we were doing our marriage counseling homework when it asked me to share with him some unresolved conflict or something I want him to change.. so I told him "There is one thing but pretty sure you have stopped it...." and he immediately knew what I was talking about and said that he hasn't been watching it but he has masturbated but was practicing on closing his eyes and imagining me and was surprised at how well it worked and I took his word and fully trusted it for the first time since I first found out he was watching porn. And a week later, two days before the wedding I was looking up on my phone some ingredients I needed for supper because I was going grocery shopping but my phone froze and he had left his phone at home while he went to work so I grabbed his phone to find he had been watching it almost the whole time we had been separated. I was broken, I walked a 30 minute walk to the church (7 months pregnant) crying and I kept asking for Jesus to help me to do what is right help me to stay calm, I ended up talking to a woman of my church she gave me some good advise but I've been waiting to talk to him about it until after our wedding honeymoon (which we are having tomorrow) I didn't want to ruin anything but I'm starting to wonder if I'm just using excuses and if I should atleast mention that we need to talk about it soon... so please give me some advise I'm weak and don't know what to do... prayers are greatly appreciated. Thank you and God bless.
 

levi85

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Re: My Marriage

Will pray that God will break the yoke of satan in your husbands life and make him free.
You can share about Jesus , his blood and love. be guided by the Lord.

God bless!
 
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atwhatcost

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Re: My Marriage

I think it would benefit you to post this on the Family forum. (I don't know if you can get a moderator to move it for you, since I'm new too.) The reason is this forum is for discussing the Bible, so imagine how people won't help you by answering but none in the way you're expecting.

The folks hanging out on the Family Forum would more have the mind to help the problem, instead of discuss it like it's a biblical debate.

(And, I'm not in the mindset right now to swap my head from real-life problems vs. bible discussion, so I'm leaving the problem for those who can right now. That I'm not answering has nothing to do with you. It really is me.)
 
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GodGoesOn

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Re: My Marriage

Thank you very much!
 
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GodGoesOn

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Re: My Marriage

Thank you :)
 
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Re: My Marriage

What's wrong with your man watching porn?

Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concbines.

You guys should make y'all on videos, obviously he likes it maybe you should watch it with him.

I'm probably not the one who should be giving advice..
 
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GodGoesOn

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My Marriage(Newly)

We were just married this May 2nd after living together for 3 years and conceiving a child 7 months ago, since the beginning I've known he was addicted to porn at first I snuck through his phone and never spoke of it.. then once I've seen it one to many times I tried to talk to him about it but he would go straight to bed no matter what time of day and ignore me. So I stopped trying I stopped looking but even though I stopped looking I still found out by mistake, and he would know when I did because I would be crying and silent so h would immediately pick up his phone to see that I found out, and he eventually told me he would never do it again,but I always ran into it down the road, I got to the point to where I didn't trust him when he said he wouldn't do it again and didn't accept his "I'm sorry" because deep down I felt like he was more sorry that he got caught than he was for the actual action. So I stayed silent but broken and I knew he knew how I felt. But it felt like he didn't care. So when we decided to get married our pastor had asked us to separate for a little more than a month, so I moved in with my parents and we also were going through marriage counseling, and for the first time in a very long time I trusted that he stopped watching porn, and one night we were doing our marriage counseling homework when it asked me to share with him some unresolved conflict or something I want him to change.. so I told him "There is one thing but pretty sure you have stopped it...." and he immediately knew what I was talking about and said that he hasn't been watching it but he has masturbated but was practicing on closing his eyes and imagining me and was surprised at how well it worked and I took his word and fully trusted it for the first time since I first found out he was watching porn. And a week later, two days before the wedding I was looking up on my phone some ingredients I needed for supper because I was going grocery shopping but my phone froze and he had left his phone at home while he went to work so I grabbed his phone to find he had been watching it almost the whole time we had been separated. I was broken, I walked a 30 minute walk to the church (7 months pregnant) crying and I kept asking for Jesus to help me to do what is right help me to stay calm, I ended up talking to a woman of my church she gave me some good advise but I've been waiting to talk to him about it until after our wedding honeymoon (which we are having tomorrow) I didn't want to ruin anything but I'm starting to wonder if I'm just using excuses and if I should atleast mention that we need to talk about it soon... so please give me some advise I'm weak and don't know what to do... prayers are greatly appreciated. Thank you and God bless.
 
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GodGoesOn

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Re: My Marriage

Matthew 5:28 "But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." So even outside of marriage it is wrong, basically I'd your married your cheating on your wife it s the same thing in God's eyes, his design for marriage is between a husband and wife. And also if I were to watch it with him it would defile our marriage bed by focusing on the physical sexuality instead of intimacy and love. Also I would be giving in to the same sin he is committing. Using something other than your spouse to get aroused is lust. Also I'm pregnant having a son I do not want my son to follow the same steps, and I was told that it probably hurts him just as much as it hurts me every time he does it, its an.addiction just as much as alcohol, drugs etc.
 
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We were just married this May 2nd after living together for 3 years and conceiving a child 7 months ago, since the beginning I've known he was addicted to porn at first I snuck through his phone and never spoke of it.. then once I've seen it one to many times I tried to talk to him about it but he would go straight to bed no matter what time of day and ignore me. So I stopped trying I stopped looking but even though I stopped looking I still found out by mistake, and he would know when I did because I would be crying and silent so h would immediately pick up his phone to see that I found out, and he eventually told me he would never do it again,but I always ran into it down the road, I got to the point to where I didn't trust him when he said he wouldn't do it again and didn't accept his "I'm sorry" because deep down I felt like he was more sorry that he got caught than he was for the actual action. So I stayed silent but broken and I knew he knew how I felt. But it felt like he didn't care. So when we decided to get married our pastor had asked us to separate for a little more than a month, so I moved in with my parents and we also were going through marriage counseling, and for the first time in a very long time I trusted that he stopped watching porn, and one night we were doing our marriage counseling homework when it asked me to share with him some unresolved conflict or something I want him to change.. so I told him "There is one thing but pretty sure you have stopped it...." and he immediately knew what I was talking about and said that he hasn't been watching it but he has masturbated but was practicing on closing his eyes and imagining me and was surprised at how well it worked and I took his word and fully trusted it for the first time since I first found out he was watching porn. And a week later, two days before the wedding I was looking up on my phone some ingredients I needed for supper because I was going grocery shopping but my phone froze and he had left his phone at home while he went to work so I grabbed his phone to find he had been watching it almost the whole time we had been separated. I was broken, I walked a 30 minute walk to the church (7 months pregnant) crying and I kept asking for Jesus to help me to do what is right help me to stay calm, I ended up talking to a woman of my church she gave me some good advise but I've been waiting to talk to him about it until after our wedding honeymoon (which we are having tomorrow) I didn't want to ruin anything but I'm starting to wonder if I'm just using excuses and if I should atleast mention that we need to talk about it soon... so please give me some advise I'm weak and don't know what to do... prayers are greatly appreciated. Thank you and God bless.
 
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GodGoesOn

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I recently got married ( May 2nd ) and I found out two days before the wedding he had been watching porn ( again ) after he had told me this huge confessional story as to why he "use" to do it and what he had been doing to avoid it. I 100% believed his word until I stumbled across it again... I haven't mentioned it to him yet because I don't want to ruin our honeymoon (tomorrow)... but I'm wondering if I should've mentioned it the night I found out or am I doing the right thing?
 
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Sirk

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Tough call. I imagine you feel betrayed and deceived. On his end I would imagine that he would feel shame if you knew and maybe does anyway. I know that for me, when my wife doesn't judge me or condemn me for my shortcomings but still expresses her hurt to me without judging me or holding me responsible for her feelings I feel closer to her and desire to please her and love her better.
 
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GodGoesOn

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Thank you very much that advise coming from a man makes me feel more confident in expressing my feelings to him. I have already forgiven him in my heart and have done everything to honor him as if I never found out I treat him as I would if I never knew. But my heart still aches I want God to Help him as he helped me overcome my addictions. Thank you so much I feel like I know what to do now and even if it turns out bad God will still be there for me I will put my trust In the Lord and try my best to let him speak through me instead of letting my emotions take over. God bless:)
 
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GodGoesOn

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But could I ask you how to bring it up to him..
 
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Sirk

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I'm not a counseler or really even that "wise" per say but I think it would be okay to do something like this.

Sweetie, I have something bothering me and I wonder if we could talk about it? )Assuming he says yes) First I wanna say that I'm not condemning you but I found some porn and I want to be sure I'm not mistaken or jumping to conclusions. (Yes it was me). I'm sorry. I know hard it is for men and that they are very visual but I just feel deceived cuz I thought it had been put behind you and I don't want to carry around ill will for you. How can I help you and love you thru this.


Its its not a one size fits all thing but I think the more loving and understanding you can be and still express your pain about the situation will set the tone for future communication between you two.

Hope me this helps. Pray about it and make it your words.
 
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blue_ladybug

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Re: My Marriage

hello and welcome to CC. Your post is more appropriate for the Ladies forum, because the new members forum is only for introducing yourself. :) Also, your post is somewhat hard to read because it is a wall of text. You will get alot more replies if you could use paragraphs to break up your words. :)
 

blue_ladybug

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If you found out two days before marrying him, you should have called off the wedding until he got some help for his addiction. He's cheating on you by viewing porn, so what does that say about your trust in him somewhere down the line if he happens to PHYSICALLY cheat on you? Without 100% trust in a marriage, there is NO MARRIAGE.
 

blue_ladybug

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Re: My Marriage(Newly)

You married him knowing he has a porn addiction? You say you feel he's sorry he got caught. Of course he is!! Cheaters are ALWAYS more sorry when they're caught, then they are about committing the act itself. He's told you NUMEROUS times he has stopped. He hasn't so he's lied to you many times and is playing you for the fool. You keep taking him at his word, and believing his lies. You sound like you don't trust him, and you have just cause not to! If there is no trust between husband and wife, then there basically is no marriage. Yes, you ARE using excuses here. The smart thing to have done would have been to NOT marry him once you found out. You should have made him get help first, before going ahead and marrying him. Now you're in for a lifetime of hurt and betrayal, lies and mistrust. Wise up and stop believing his lies.
 
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Re: My Marriage

Welcome to CC, GodGoesOn! :)

hello and welcome to CC. Your post is more appropriate for the Ladies forum, because the new members forum is only for introducing yourself. :) Also, your post is somewhat hard to read because it is a wall of text. You will get alot more replies if you could use paragraphs to break up your words. :)
Or the prayer requests.
 

blue_ladybug

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why do you have this same exact thread in 3 forums? It's in this forum twice, one in new members forum, AND in miscellaneous forum. The mods don't like duplicate threads being made in multiple forums. They will remove the others.
 
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Sirk

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But could I ask you how to bring it up to him..
Or you could bring it up like the bug suggests and put him on the defensive and he will likewise distrust you with the dark parts of his heart. I think Jesus likes it when we are gentle with those we love and refuse to let our flesh throw stones because we are hurting.... but instead show grace and love in spite of our personal pain.