Quote From: itsdakota"I am Not by any means a prude and i will give it up to him even when i am sick if that is what he wants. my daughter is 17 months old and this has been going on up until i threw out all of the porn in the house and took his account off of the computer and made my password protected. He has been doing better and our sex life is progressing to what it was before baby."
so, you threw out all the porn he had and took his account off the computer and changed the password ?? WOW. your not his wife, i think your his mother ! remember, he already has one of those and doesnt need another one! what right do you have to throw out his porn stash, remove his computer account and change the password so he can't get in ??? who are YOU to do all these things???? general zod ?? if you didn't want porn in your life, WHY did you marry him? and if during the marriage you decided out of thin air that porn wasn't thrilling or fun for you anymore, then WHY didnt you divorce him? if you had, then porn would of BEEN out of your life and he could of stayed the same person that YOU married and fell in luv with!
you remind me of another poster that did this very same thing. and umm, its "not working for her" (as doc phil would say ). her husband still looks at porn, even more so than ever before and he doesnt care that she knows- in fact, he lets her know when he uses every chance he gets lol. then you go on to say that he's "doing better" and that your "sex life is progressing"... he's doing better ??? huh? he's "doing better" because YOU took the porn away. you took the porn away, but you didnt take away his desire to wanna use it. in fact, you might of made it even worse now. just because you dont see him using it, doesnt mean he's not using it or not thinking about it !
what you did was treat him like a baby. and here your thinking you did such a great thing- by controlling him and keeping certain things away from him the way a parent would keep certain dangerous things away from a lil kid. word: your husband is an ADULT and can make HIS OWN decisions! think about it: he didn't CHOOSE to stop using porn, YOU made that choice FOR HIM and in doing that, you FORCED porno sobriety on him. you cant keep it away from him forever!!!! and umm, whats gonna happen when he goes out somewhere else (unless you put a GPS in his car ) like to somebodys house or if he goes to the store and sees or buys a porn mag? what if what you did drives him to go to strip clubs and other places since he cant see the kinda sex (porn ) that he wants to see at his own house?!?
if forcefully taking his porn away makes you feel better inside, more in control of him and is making your sex life "progress", then i guess thats all good....for YOU. but whether this parenting skill that you used on him makes him feel better inside, makes him feel more in control of his own mind, fantasies & actions and is making his sex life "progress", i'd have to say I DOUBT IT. that is sooo messed up, what you did. reading your post about what you did to your husband is making me understand more and more why most husbands go to porn and keep using it . this ain't a diss on you, k? its just how i feel and how i see it.
I agree with you to some degree.....every woman who's had this problem inside her marriage would just "love" for her man to just decide one day that's it's not worth hurting his marriage and happily give up the porn sources all by his self.....BUT that does not often happen.
You ask "why didn't you just divorce him".....and that's easier said than done. Especially with children involved. No one should just decide...."ooops, he's looking at porn,.....find a divorce attorney"....that's not the solution either. Nor does it have to be.
But if I were living with someone who had this problem.....then that makes this my marriage too...and my home. And I can actually make the choice of what I will ALLOW inside my home and my marriage too. No one should have to take this back seat to this and just put up with it until the partner who is doing the deed makes his own decision to not harm his marriage. What if he's addicted to this stuff.....do you then just wait this out and let him decide what's good for the both of you? NO....you can't. Why make this easy for anyone to continue to hurt a person. If an alcoholic is drinking.....then you sure don't keep booze under the kitchen sink and just "hope" they don't get to it......they will.
I don't know who you wrote this too exactly....haven't been around here too much lately....but everyone's situation is different. And just as his choice is to seek porn....it's as much HER choice to throw it out of her house and her marriage too.....and just as she could have divorced him....he has the choice to make also....if she doesn't like his porn use and he wants to continue to harm his marriage....then be a damn "big boy" about it and get divorced, live alone, and don't create more children if he can't be happy with the woman he chose and her beliefs about this.....
Tell him to get an attorney and take this to court and tell the judge that the reason he's getting divorced is because "my wife doesn't like me getting off by looking at young girls 1/4 of her age"..."duh, judge I just can't understand that"........duh
Luv~