Okay- so let me start by saying that I love my boyfriend more than anything and I know he loves me just the same. For the most part our relationship is solid. We hiccup every once in awhile but that's normal in any relationship. Our sex life is VERY active. We have sex at least once a day, and I know I satisfy him. We've been together a little over a year and after the first week or so he talked me about this "problem he has". Sometimes it just doesn't work on it's own. We've tried a lot and ended up seeing his doctor for it and got prescribed something to help and it totally does. He just really beats himself up about it and thus far, nothing I can do or say reassures him. I've always been very honest with him and in the beginning it was hard sometimes to deal with and I would tell him and we would talk about it. It made me feel like I was doing something wrong. But we're way past that now and I totally realized its not me. He's obsessed with my body and the way I do the things I do to him so I'm not worried about that either. Yesterday I found out he watched porn. We just found out that I'm pregnant- a little over a month along. The porn thing goes back awhile and I found out he did it before and I told him how much I hated it and how it makes me feel bad about myself to know he's watching other girls besides me. I don't do that and I don't want him fantacising about someone else while he's inside of me- sorry. But really it's a mixture of all that and the fact that I've been cheated on so many times when I was younger and it scares the **** out of me. Anyway- yesterday When I found out at first he told me he didn't know what I was talking about. Then after much silence and me losing my mind because to me nothing is worse than a liar - he came clean and told me that a couple months ago he saw on some sex therapy article or the like that sometimes people watch porn while in the act to amp blood flow down there so it works better. He said he tried it once a few months ago and said it didn't do anything. Well we ran out of pills last week and he can't get a refill until the end of dec. usually he would just get some from a liquor store by us, and he wanted to go this weekend but I've been feeling sick because of the pregnancy and I didn't want him to go alone because I wanted to be with him and it's kind of a long way, to walk at least. So being the sweet man he is, he didn't go. But then on Monday and Tuesday he watched porn at work on his phone. At this point it's past the fact that I don't like porn, but that I feel my trust was betrayed. Yesterday once I finally got him talking, I told him its either me or the porn and that I thought he should choose me. He laughed because I was trying to lighten things up after us both getting emotional about it and he said "Of course I choose you". Well now it's been screwing with my head and I'm scared he'll end up doing it again and we'll go back to where we were and it'll jut keep hurting me more and more every time. I feel like maybe I should tell him i want to be okay with it. I want him to be open and honest but i know he wont tell me because he knows it'l hurt me. What do I do?
i had the same issue with my boyfriend and I. I HATE porn, it makes me sick even when we are watching a movie and some girls boobs show up for a while. But here is what I did, it embrassed me at first, but it worked. I took pictures of myself for him to have. Did little poses etc. At first I felt stupid doing it, but it turned out to help alot. Instead of him going to porn when I dont feel like having sex and he does, he just pulls out his phone and uses the pictures of me. I have even seen people take pics of themselves and make a little book of it. -maybe thatll help, idk?
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The porn has NOTHING to do with you and good sex, and pushing him into a corner about it is only going to force him to lie to you and become sneaky. I'm betting a dozen doughnuts that he isn't thinking about the porn or porn stars when he's with you. Porn is just a greased wheel to get to where he's going by himself. Having sex -- really good sex -- with a partner takes work and planning, sort of like making a satisfying Christmas dinner with all the trimmings. Looking at porn and having solitary sex is like slapping together a bologna sandwich on cheap white bread with no mustard.
He might eat that bologna sandwich once in a while, but his cravings will be for the Christmas dinner.
I know your emotions are running high now that you're pregnant, and you are doing your best to make a safe and secure nest for yourself and the coming baby.
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@Sghandwdrc that's a good idea thank you I feel the same way about movies too. I've taken pictures already and we've taken pictures together but maybe I'll make him a book for Christmas. Terrific idea. After I posted my question yesterday I decided to talk to him about it and basically I told him I'm not okay with being not
Okay with it and that I want to be open and honest with each other and that if he wants to then he can. I even said I'd watch it with him. I told him my insecurities are exactly that, mine. He then replies with that they're his too because he wants me to be happy and not feel the way it makes me feel. Then he still said he won't do it. I asked him if he was sure and he said yes and thanked me for "trying so hard for him and us and being so great". Then I just asked him to promise to tell me if anything changes and he changes his mind about it or wants to again and he promised.
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Wondergirl, I am sorry. But you are wrong. You can never have good sex when your man is watching something dirty. It will not be the best sex the way God intended it to be no matter how hard you try. You need to stop lying to yourself. Bebeebe3 agreed to watch it with him but you can still hear in what she s saying that's she s still so uncomfortable with this and feels betrayed!! Right on, you should be betrayed. Your man should not be fantasizing of another woman's body, while with you. That's not unity. I encourage you to YouTube mark gungor. He explains how to have great sex and talks about men wanting to watch porn. It will answer all your questions. I promise.
Truly my best regards to you.
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Wondergirl, I am sorry. But you are wrong. You can never have good sex when your man is watching something dirty. It will not be the best sex the way God intended it to be no matter how hard you try. You need to stop lying to yourself. Bebeebe3 agreed to watch it with him but you can still hear in what she s saying that's she s still so uncomfortable with this and feels betrayed!! Right on, you should be betrayed. Your man should not be fantasizing of another woman's body, while with you. That's not unity. I encourage you to YouTube mark gungor. He explains how to have great sex and talks about men wanting to watch porn. It will answer all your questions. I promise.
Truly my best regards to you.
Please - your God may very well not be my God. It's good you know what God intended. I don't happen to have your beliefs.
Please be respectful of other people's opinions. People who don't agree with you aren't lying to themselves or wrong.
"Your man"? Do you own him? I refer to "My dog." I don't refer to "My man."
Mark Gungor? A media darling at the moment. That's like getting legal advice from Judge Judy's TV show.
OP shouldn't do anything that makes her uncomfortable - I agree with that.
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Wondergirl, I am sorry. But you are wrong. You can never have good sex when your man is watching something dirty. It will not be the best sex the way God intended it to be no matter how hard you try. You need to stop lying to yourself. Bebeebe3 agreed to watch it with him but you can still hear in what she s saying that's she s still so uncomfortable with this and feels betrayed!! Right on, you should be betrayed. Your man should not be fantasizing of another woman's body, while with you. That's not unity. I encourage you to YouTube mark gungor. He explains how to have great sex and talks about men wanting to watch porn. It will answer all your questions. I promise.
Truly my best regards to you.
Good thing I don't believe in your god, then. My husband watches porn occasionally, and I don't have a problem with it at ALL--mostly because I'm confident enough in myself and don't have insecurities about our sex life and his feelings for me. Hate to say it, sweetheart--but if you think porn is dirty, then any sex outside of a marital bed had better feel dirty to you as well, because it's not what your god intended, either. And you'd better not be using birth control, either--because THAT is not what God intended either.
Please--don't be a hypocrite.
Porn has NOTHING to do with how a man feels about you. Are you thinking about a romance novel and the hero in it when your man is in you? Then why in the world would he be thinking about some chick on a porn video?!
Forcing a man who watches porn to choose between you and the porn is just going to result in a man who lies to you about watching porn.
The FIRST step to getting past this is to address your own insecurities about sex, your relationship, and your ability to see the difference between looking and fantasizing. I know that with being pregnant, emotions are high and you're going to have a harder time with it. Wondergirl is right on with her assessment of how men view porn, and if more women understood that there wouldn't be as many issues with it in relationships.
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I am very surprised of how we let it get to us that porn is ok. If you can just be honest with yourself, I know that you will realize that this is not right. What feelings do you have after watching porn? Do you have feelings of real, caring, unconditional, forgiving love? I am not saying all this stuff because in trying to be mean. My heart hurts for you, because I want you to have the best possible pure marriage and sex. Synen, you're absolutely right. The only sex you should be having is with your husband, and not because our God is mean like that makin up all these rules. But because HE knows what is good for us and I can see the evidence of this in my own life.
Ladies, religion aside, if deep down we are uncomfortable with men watching porn, we get hurt, betrayed, we lose trust... And then someone keeps repeating to us " don't worry it has nothin to do its normal " that doesn't make it right. Is it going to be a year from now that if our husband goes and cheats on us that we are going to hear the same things" don't worry, it's normal. It has NOThing to do with you "
... I'm really sorry if some of this is going to hurt you or offend any of you, I say this because it's the truth.
... For those that are confused, but don't want to feel the way they do and want to have real peace in their lives, seek God. He is the only answer to any of your problems.
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Here2help - likewise, I'm truly sorry if some of what I have to say is going to hurt or offend you.
This is not a religious forum. If you want to preach, why don't you post on AMHD's various religious boards? You will be welcome there.
I'd be interested in where you get your "fact" that a man who watches porn (or, I suppose, a woman) will eventually cheat on a partner? I'd like to see the information in print.
I am being honest - I have no problem with porn. How I feel or don't feel after watching porn is, quite truthfully, absolutely none of your business.
This is not a chat board.
It has nothing to do or not do with your God.
Stop posting religion on other than religious boards. You not only aren't convincing or converting anyone, you are making a very poor, judgmental impression on people - in the name of religion.
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Porn is a shortcut, an express flight. While "traveling," you don't have any opportunity to meet or get to know any of the other passengers; you're on your own. Later, once you've reached your "destination," you don't even remember what they looked like.
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For quit sometime now (5 years+) my wife has to watch porn before we has sex. I have started to get concerned, even feel insecure about us because she won't let me get her in the mood without watching it. I talked to her once and she said that its her way of relaxing and getting in the mood. She...
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Not sure if I am posting in the correct topic.
My boyfriend secretly watches porn when he thinks I am asleep by sneaking his laptop into the bathroom and locking the door.
This may be natural...but it is very aggrevating and hurtful.
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