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You can’t escape reality forever.

Sex addicts and porn addicts share certain characteristics. One of these common characteristics is that starting in adolescence (and sometimes even earlier) we learn to use sexual fantasies and masturbation to avoid feelings. We carry this trend into adult life. In other words, we’ve long known that sex can be used to escape emotional discomfort. Often, this is the simplest and most reliable form of self-soothing and emotion regulation we can find, so it becomes our go-to coping mechanism. In other words, we learn to use sexual fantasies and masturbation for the same reasons alcoholics and drug addicts use them—to escape fear, stress, depression, anxiety, boredom, and anything else we don’t want to feel.

today’s task
When you experience emotional discomfort, sit with it and experience it instead of numbing yourself to addiction.