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I'm glad your parents know. You need them!

And also if you have any questions about counseling or groups that work with recovering people - I can tell you what some of that is like.

If you want to read about some of my journey it is posted on the Internet. Also, other people's testimony can be helpful to read / watch / listen to. In the very least it helps us realize we are not alone!

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I don’t know if you saw my last post, but my parents do know. And the addiction to porn and sex wasn’t bothering me all of those six years. In fact, I had no intentions of stopping. I haven’t had sex yet, but during that time period, if the situation had come when I would have been in a position to have sex with someone, I would have done it without a second thought. It was only after realizing that no true Christian would behave like that that I became fearful and started struggling to affirm my salvation, repeatedly asking Christ to save me, etc. THAT struggle has been going on for the last five months.

Edit: sorry, started writing before your last reply.
 
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Sounds to me like you are truly on your way to deeply and profoundly knowing grace! That's a good thing! You have a distinct point where you remember not being saved and when you go to look back on this 20 years later - remembering the change will be of an advantage to a perspective that someone who didn't go through these types of struggles won't have. It's a blessing when we feel terror because those who God ultimately leaves to reap the wages of their own sin, never feel that. That's a supernatural awakening and one that happens because it was preordained from the foundations of the world. For those Jesus bought. He certainly aint gonna let us get away. It cost Him too much!
 
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