Feb 28, 2011
John had a dark secret. He was a respectable man, with a successful career, a beautiful wife and four great kids. Yet he was addicted to internet pornography. He had never dreamed that one day he would struggle with such an addiction, and now he hated himself for it.
“How could this have happened to me?” he asked himself time and again.
John’s cycle of addiction was quite common. After a hard day at the office, he would look forward to logging onto the internet to view porn after his wife and kids were in bed. John would view porn for a couple of hours and it almost always ended with him masturbating. Afterward, John would feel horrible and would make the vow to never do it again. However, the next evening the urge to view porn would hit him and the cycle would begin all over again.
At first he tried to justify his actions saying to himself that he was just “blowing off steam with some adult entertainment.” However, deep down, he knew it was wrong and that he had a serious problem. One evening, John’s wife caught him viewing pornography. Seeing how devastated she was, he decided to finally get help.