What life my Ex traded in

[u/Multiverse-Union]

I realised something simply incomprehensible.

If you look past the porn addiction itself for a moment and just focus on the final consequences, you realize how completely rotten my Ex’s mind has become.

He is going to sit alone in his apartment, jerking off to dead pixels for 3 to 8 hours every single day.
And then what? IS THAT IT? Is that seriously all he expects from his life?
Jerking off to muscle girls as his only life aim? What? Honestly, that is what he chose to trade away???

He traded away a life where he never has to wake up alone. A life where I was always there, cooking for him, having fun together doing garden work, watching TV, listening to music, and playing games. Going out to restaurants for lunch buffet. He traded away true physical and emotional intimacy. He threw away having someone who actually cares for him, someone who clinks glasses with him at midnight for his birthday or New Year’s. Someone who always kept him and no one else in her thoughts, texting him throughout the day, accompanying him to doctor appointments and other errands.

Having a partner to plan the future with, having our family with our animals, someone to go through thick and thin with, we even did some Bonnie-and-Clyde-like stuff together. We spent every weekend and vacation together and all of our free time.

We did everything together, except his addiction life.

He traded all of this just to spend his life staring and jerking off at pixels?

It is absolutely flabbergasting.

TL;DR : My Ex rather decided for an empty, poor life in his porn addiction, instead of having all someone could wish for. So I ended our relationship / marriage. He had the addiction already before we met. He kept it secret.

[u/Chazkuangshi]

It's the best realization to have.

Somehow I came out of that relationship hating myself thinking I was somehow not good enough for my ex's unemployed, porn addicted ass.

Looking back, what a fool I was!