Counseling Blog
Emotional & Relational Health from a Christian Perspective
Porn doesn’t care about you or the people involved in producing it. It cares about making money and keeping you hooked and it is very good at doing both. It wants you to love pleasure while also feeling worse and worse about yourself and your life. It wants you to judge others and find them wanting and to embrace ideals of physical beauty and sexual behavior. It doesn’t want you to look beneath the surface or to think about what it takes to create porn or keep the industry going.
For many men, coming home at the end of the day will inevitably lead to being reminded that they don’t know what they are doing and feeling like they are failing at being the dad and husband their family needs. It can feel like your family members are criticizing you and disappointed in you. This is an extremely painful experience and we often try to avoid such painful feelings at all costs, because we associate them with the loss of relationship.
