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In Jan 2012, a boy wrote: I discovered GYE at age 14 while travelling in Israel, and I am now 16 and have been clean for two years thanks to the great support! After falling today, I signed up to GYE finally with my own account and I am very optimistic that I should r...

On ******, 2015 4:26:18 PM **********@gmail.com wrote: ... The ladies on GYE are well meaning but I have no good reason for keeping the marriage at this point. I need their support but I do not understand why they don't get out also. Do you have guidelines on how...

Dear Guard, Since starting acting out (as young as 6 or 7 years old), I have never gone this amount of time sober. (I am now in my thirties, and over 13 months sober one day at a time). I did once manage just over a year out of willpower and determination, but then re...

"It is shocking to say, but we have a son who died, and one of the partial causes was the obsessive viewing of porn. May GYE have unbelievable big success & blessing from Hashem."

I remember once, when I was a child, I had a very close relationship with Hashem. Then, over the years, I only checked-in once in a while. By my twenties, I knew He was here, but I wasn't about to be another "true believer." I needed proof. So I told Him, "I'm not going ...

In November 2015, she wrote again: Dear Guard Your Eyes, I'm another story which you can turn the page on! Of course, I have tears running down my cheek as I say this: I am past 300 days clean already. I know that without the incredible team at GYE, I would have never ...

My school recently made a video for some project to be shared on social media. I noticed that the boys in my class, who were involved in the video, purposefully put videos of themselves looking real good so that the girls from the girls' school will watch it and see how ...

Dear GYE, I am 32 years old, and this struggle has brought me to places in the last few years that I do not want to mention. I WAS FIGHTING EVERYDAY, ASKING MYSELF “AM I NORMAL OR NOT?” But B"H, thanks to GuardYourEyes, I am almost 5 months clean today. A few weeks into...

Dear GYE, In 2011, I discovered that I had a problem and I turned to you guys, who eventually sent me to a 12-step group. I stayed clean for 3.5 years with relatively good recovery. My wife, however, hated the groups so much that we almost divorced over them. She could ...

I would like to express how much "hakaras hatov" I have towards you guys for the day-to-day help with these serious problems I'm dealing with. You are helping me in such a real way - and the entire Jewish community, as well! 3 great things about the site: 1. Speciali...

Chevra, I just had an epic realization as I was preparing myself for this last Shabbos of the year. As I stood in front of HKB"H last year on the Yom Ha'Din, I have no recollection of actually asking for the gift of sobriety this year. In fact, on the contrary - I k...

Yesterday, Hashem graced me with 1 year of sobriety, and I owe GYE a HUGE "thank you" for their part in it. When I found GYE, I had stopped my bottom line behaviors thru the help of "The Garden" series books and working on personal prayer, but I couldn't stop pornography...

Dear GYE,The 9th of Av was my one year anniversary of not spilling z"l. And that is the same day I came to GYE. So I am happy about that milestone, because I lived it every single day, one day at a time. And because I don't remember such a long span of time being clean in...

When I look at myself in the mirror (yes, that's something I can do these days), I no longer feel repulsed by what I see, I no longer see a guy with potential that's just wasting his life, or doing so much damage to his friends and family that he can't bear to feel. I no...

I just want you to know that I just got back from a sexual sobriety shabbaton with ~300 people, at least 100 wives and >200 sexaholics, all going to SA and S-Anon meetings and getting well, be"H. It was incredible. The speakers, the ruach, the simcha, the meetings, th...

I am both happy and humbled to announce that today, I am 6 years sober B"H. I am so fortunate and grateful to have support from so many sources, from my wife, my rav, my friends here at GYE, and from the RBS"O who gives me all these belssings. Thank you all who have helpe...

Even though this was the 'rockiest year' in 7 years, I still hope to be at 8 years sober in SA this summer be"H. I downloaded the Internet filter. As a result, I go through a tircha when I need web access, even to download a shiur. I have to find the time to ask others t...

A German Yid once traveled to the tzaddik Reb Pinchas of Koritz to request a bracha for his daughter who had suddenly become blind. "The reason," said Reb Pinchas, "is that her father is also blind and this is a hereditary disease." The Yid protested, "But my eyes are per...