A dear friend of mine started talking about it to me or of the blue one day. He recounted these horror stories he read about on the testimonials.

One day when i was in his office he showed me the site and together we read a few stories. He then told me about these emails they send out. ...

I dont know why he mentioned it. I dont think i was open with him at that point about my struggles.
Maybe he knew.
Maybe he struggles.

I dunno.
Either way, i have since spilled the beans to him and i have also made gye my own.

Thanks to this great site i may one day regain proper websight.

Living in ny currently (wishing i was elsewhere)

The way I found out about GYE was almost nearly by coincidence, it was as if Hashem revealed this site to me. What I mean to say is; that one day I was not in such a good position when I was browsing the web for some information to feed my lust. When I happened to find a web page with a someones success story from GYE,(since it had in the article some wording in it that I put in when I was browsing the web). I couldn't believe that there is actually a site that has so much information on how to get helped from these types of behaviors. I was in a bad position that I almost felt hopeless and stuck, and by finding this site I became optimistic about my situation, and I started to read the books and hope to work towards recovery from the issues I was struggling. I Daven to Hashem every day to help me out with my struggles and lead towards recovery.

Look how many guys get to GYE

How did you find out about GYE?
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markz wrote:


Is this the reality nowadays?

Are there posters of gye in every Shul...?

Are rabbis promoting gye in general?

How can we get all rabbis to do this?

I found out about it years and years ago- probably right near the beginning but it wasn't remotely as robust as it is now, so there wasn't much that I felt can help me back then.

Rabbis don't talk about it so much bc they don't talk about this issue so much. They may talk about proper filters, but they don't say "hey, anyone who has a sex addiction, your first stop should be GYE" bc they don't talk about sex addiction.

However, I do think it has pretty good exposure. It's all over matzav and the yeshivaworld, and there is a new english Shmiras Einayim boom that mentions in one of the early footnotes that if you need help, check out GYE. It's been in Mishpacha stories as well.

But I hear the problem, and don't have much to offer in the way of solutions.

I hope you weren't serious

A normal rabbi would talk about kedusha during Shovavim and Aseres Yemei teshuva, and that's a good opportunity for him to say
"I want to be modia the oilam about a great website that I have researched and that has helped many people with their shemiras Einayim and Kedusha"

If I would have heard that from my Rav 5 years ago I would be 5 years clean - I would have gone right away and checked out gye

I would have had 82000 posts by now... Shucks :-(

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I was serious. I agree with you that Rabbis SHOULD talk about it and indeed say it the way that you laid it out. What I was saying is that Rabbis DON'T say it bc even after all the talk about Internet and assifahs and TAG, rabbis and people in general don't actually talk about PROBLEMS that people have with Internet, etc.

They'll talk about why you need good filters, etc but totally avoid acknowledging that there are serious issues out there.

I hope you understand that I was saying it in an extremely open fashion to highlight how far that is from ever being said- either in the somewhat crass way I said or in the way you so nicely put it.

It just seems like one of those issues that people dance around and aren't comfortable talking about, rabbis included. I can't begin to tell you how many times I've had conversations with upstanding frum people and based on a reference or an allusion they make, I say to myself "You, too? You just gave yourself away!"

But of course we can never actually say that bc it's not polite (sarcastic) and we ourselves are too embarrassed.

To sum up, I agree with you but it doesn't happen today. It's up to people like us when we do sense it in someone else to bring up the conversation.

I found out from an addiction specialist. I see GYE ads all over the place nowadays though.

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Yeah me too

And that's where I'm from :-)

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Where's that, heard it's near Canada or something?

markz wrote:


Thank God!

googled "chizuk in shmiras einayim"

Collive.com

Abie, thanks for letting me know the "Free Towing" thread had a un-usable link which I corrected to here!

Anyone else want to add their 'backlink'? How did you find out about gye?
Are there any marxists here

I think I Saw an ad in yeshivah world news

My parents told me. and here I am. Location??? ok here goes Bristol Wisconsin
 I fell last night unfortunately.