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It typically involves content or behavior that is tamer than what we did when we were binging on porn.
In this episode, you’ll learn to shift your thinking away from “this is not porn” mentality.
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Resources Mentioned:
- PFR 092 – Back 2 Basics: Edging
- PFR 051 – Slips Vs. Acting Out
- Alcoholics Anonymous (The Big Book) Amazon link
- Alcoholics Anonymous (The Big Book) Read Online at aa.org
From p. 24, Alcoholics Anonymous (The Big Book)
The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called will power becomes practically nonexistent. We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago. We are without defense against the first drink.
The almost certain consequences that follow taking even a glass of beer do not crowd into the mind to deter us. If these thoughts occur, they are hazy and readily supplanted with the old threadbare idea that this time we shall handle ourselves like other people. There is a complete failure of the kind of defense that keeps one from putting his hand on a hot stove.
The alcoholic may say to himself in the most casual way, “It won’t burn me this time, so here’s how!’’ Or perhaps he doesn’t think at all. How often have some of us begun to drink in this nonchalant way, and after the third or fourth, pounded on the bar and said to ourselves, “For God’s sake, how did I ever get started again?’’ Only to have that thought supplanted by “Well, I’ll stop with the sixth drink.’’ Or “What’s the use anyhow?’’
