Many married men at the Purify Your Gaze program have proactively dealt with guarding their gaze. But to accomplish that, they needed a strong reason why they were committed, that will help surpass them in those moments of weakness. And the principal way you will guard your gaze is by spending some time on a personal level and connecting with …
Brother Saleh had been successfully abstinent from watching pornography for two weeks straight. Saleh said, “I’ve been able to go to sleep early, at the same time as my wife 50% of the time these past two weeks. I feel more refreshed, I’m able to work out more, I recently started training with a personal trainer, I train five days …
Purify Your Gaze Team: Assalamu ‘alaikum, this is Maria Khan, the Content Manager at Purify Your Gaze. Joining us today is Zeyad Ramadan, who is the Founder of Purify Your Gaze and a Strategic Interventionist coach. Insha Allah, we will first introduce what Purify Your Gaze is and then move on to the discussion of the day which is the …
While you may think that tawbah wipes away the sin of watching pornography, the imprints that pornography leaves on your mind have not been wiped away. In fact, these pornographic imprints will shape and distort your perceptions about marriage and intimacy. Take Brother Mahmood who joined the Purify Your Gaze online program (now known as Breaking Free) after struggling with …
A lot of men get into marriage with the mindset of hiding their unwanted sexual behaviors from their wives. They have the following thoughts to justify their decision of not disclosing: “I am going to hide this [my unwanted sexual behaviors] from my wife, because it would devastate her.” “This is my problem. There is no need to drag her …
No matter how far you’ve gone the wrong way, you can always turn around and come back. But Sameer didn’t know how to turn back. Sameer broke down crying as we sat down to speak. After he had found some composure I asked him to relay to me what had happened that motivated him to reach out to me. “I …
There are many challenges that face the Muslim ummah. One of them is pornography addiction and its effect on marriages. This blog discusses how porn affects a marriage, what to do about it, and why it’s important for husbands and wives to protect their relationship from the harms of pornography.
By no means is this list exhaustive, but here are five ways in which your sex addiction is violating the sanctity of your marriage right now: 1. It gets in the way of you being able to experience soulful sexuality with your wife. The compulsive energy behind a sex addiction turns sex into something primal and mechanical. It is the …
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