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Bad Family Influence

brandynicole

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I am struggling to remain pure, but there is just sex everywhere. My family loves going to the theater and watching movies at home, but they watch the worst kind of movies. There's lots of nudity and explicit material. They also watched porn with me, but it was mostly as a child. I can vividly recall my cousins making sexual jokes about me and asking me to watch videos with them. At the time I didn't realize the pain that it would cause in my future.

I can't continue in this sickening lifestyle because it chips away at my conscience every day.

Honestly, my family has reinforced the promiscuous lifestyle more than any other people in my life. If I didn't have the over-sexualized entertainment and porn as a child, I could have been pure.

Countless family members are poor single mothers because of bad choices they've made in life. I don't want to go down that road because I know it leads to nowhere.

Should I stop spending time with them? I don't have any friends. And now with the quarantine I'm stuck at home with the temptation of tv 24/7. It's hard to fight against something I've done my whole life.