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I’ve been with a wonderful man for four years now.

We’ll be married in a week and we also have a beautiful son together. I’m completely helpless though when it comes to my husbands lust for graven images and videos on the computer. He is stressed about not seeing our son nor me enough because he works long hours and every day of the week. He contradicts those feelings by getting up an hour early every morning to spend time on our computer to watch graven images. I’ve tried talking to him about how it hurts me and God, it’s not good for our marriage, nor our family. I feel it’s dishonorable and in a way I feel he’s cheating on me in a non-physical way. I’ve also recently found out that when he and our son are home alone, he leaves our son alone to play in a bedroom for one to two hours so he can watch even more graven images! This infuriates me and I’ve spoken to him how what he’s doing affects ALL members of this family and not just him. He shrugs it off and says, “Atleast I’m not going somewhere else to get ‘it’!” I can honestly say I try to please him in the bedroom, but I also have some medical problems that prevent me from doing ‘it’ as often as he’d like. When did I stop being good enough for him and what can I do to become good enough again and to help him realize what he’s doing is wrong?

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5 months, 1 week ago (8 minutes after post)

I know its a sinnful act but everyone has their vices. Its not that he dosn’t love you. Just these images are his way of getting through life. At least his vice isn’t physically damaging

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An Unknown Location | 5 months, 1 week ago (15 minutes after post)

I’m sorry to hear you’re going through this; a friend of mine was having the same problem with her husband - ultimately, they ended up going to couple’s therapy. And yes, all is well again for them.

It seems to have become an addiction - much like drugs or gambling. Perhaps reading these articles will give you a bit of insight into what is going on from his side of the problem:

http://allpsych.com/journal/sexaddict…
http://www.crisiscounseling.com/Artic…
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4302347/

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An Unknown Location | 5 months, 1 week ago (1 day, 12 hours after post)

Thank y’all for your help. It means a lot to know there’s people out there that care :)

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