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Stacie & Repentant #fundie fredstoeker.com

Stacie:

My new husband has been faithful to follow what the book, Every Man's Battle, suggests one do to overcome all sexual temptations. I am so proud of him for all the changes he has made in this area for the better.

One problem: He keeps having dreams that he is looking at pornography, masturbating or having sex with other women.

From a man's point of view, what can I do to help him with this? Somestimes I cry when he tells me, sometimes I encourage to keep fighting it and comfort him by saying it was just a dream. In real life, I respect him - but his dream life is hurting us.

Also from a man who has recovered from all this, will these dreams decrease the longer he keeps his eyes pure in the real world? Will they end?

Repentant:

That's a tough one. For me, it took quite some time for them to decrease, but my experience was nearly identical to the guys in the book. Somewhere around the 2 month mark, I dreamt that I was in a large van with a bunch of other men who were commenting on a woman outside the window. I remember very specifically in my dream turning my head in the opposite direction to avoid it. Even now when they happen, my actions in the dream tend to be more of fighting the scenario...kind of weird, but a good thing.

Fred Stoeker #fundie fredstoeker.com

Abbas: What would you say to the man who says that his thought life is private and doesn't affect anyone else?

Fred: Well, I would say that's crazy. There's nothing in the Bible that would lead us to believe that. Christ would never agree with that. I know that some of the times when I was right in the very act of looking at, not pornography, but lingerie ads or some of those things, my wife would run down the stairs because she had just had a dream where she's being chased by Satan and she couldn't find me in the dream to protect her. I really think that the effects of my sin were causing my protection to be taken off of her.