I just found out the other day that my boyfriend watches porn. We've been dating 2 1/2 yrs and have been living together for 10 months. I knew he used to watch porn before we were dating and he always talked about it in the past tense. In recent months, we've seemed to have drifted apart and our sex life dwindled. We've both blamed this on stress and working many hours. In a sad way, we've been too tired for sex. Then I logged on to the computer the other night and he had forgotten to clear the search history in the computer. I was shocked. Upset. I went to him about it. He told me it has nothing to do with me and that he'd stop. I just wish he had been honest about it in the first place. It has affected our relationship...I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about it. Logically, I know it doesn't really have anything to do with me, but at the same time I kind of feel betrayed. And I wonder if that's why he's been distant lately. He tells me that's not why..that its just stress about other things. I'm confused about how I feel. I haven't brought it up since and I think he probably assumes I've forgotten about it, but I haven't. He's always been honest that he masturbates and that's fine. I just don't know if I'm comfortable with other women turning him on. And I'm too embarassed to talk to any of my friends about it. I might be open to watching it -- not just naked girls though -- but I never really thought of it before. I think that mostly I'm just hurt that he deliberately never told me until I found it on the computer and then at first, he tried to deny it. I thought our relationship was really based on honesty. Maybe I'm naive. And I'm also really upset that maybe our relationship is in worse shape than I thought if he's looking at porn and lying about it. Really, I have so many emotions about it that I'm not sure how I feel. I really appreciate all the feedback on this site..its helping me really think about how I feel.”
