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2 Be Better

I Was Addicted to Porn for years… Here’s How I Finally Broke Free

2 Be Better

Chris Burkett

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture, Mental Health

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Porn addiction is one of the most hidden struggles affecting men, relationships, and marriages today, and in this powerful conversation we dive deep into the reality behind it. In this episode, Chris sits down with a guest from Team Vulnerable who shares his personal story of growing up with shame, developing a severe porn addiction that lasted more than a decade, and hitting rock bottom when it began destroying his marriage and mental health. From erectile dysfunction on his wedding night to confronting the shame that kept him trapped, this raw discussion explores the real psychological and emotional reasons people become addicted to pornography and why so many feel powerless to stop. 

You’ll learn how addiction thrives in secrecy, why honesty and vulnerability are the first steps toward freedom, and what the recovery process actually looks like for couples trying to rebuild trust. The conversation covers accountability, healing trauma, rebuilding intimacy, and how partners can support each other through addiction recovery without shame or blame. If you’re struggling with porn addiction, dealing with a partner who is, or simply want to understand how pornography impacts relationships, this episode offers practical insight, real-world experience, and a path toward healing and personal responsibility.


Disclaimer: We are not professionals. This podcast is opinioned based and from life experience. This is for entertainment purposes only. Opinions helped by our guests may not reflect our own. But we love a good conversation.

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0:00.0

And look how far we've come.

0:03.6

All the things we've done.

0:06.5

And I am back.

0:23.6

We are doing something a little different today for you guys.

0:26.6

Normally when we do episodes like this, we have somebody in studio,

0:29.6

but because we got rid of our studio and everything is being ran out of our house now,

0:32.6

we are doing Zoom interviews again.

0:33.6

And I have a manual from Team Vulnerable.

0:35.6

The last time we sat down together, it was over two years ago. And you came down, you did an episode with us where we talked about

0:41.9

porn addiction. We talked about your TED Talk. We talked about a whole lot of things. And we have

0:47.3

gotten in the last like month and a half, probably 40 or 50 emails about porn. So this is becoming a really hot topic again. And I reached out and I figured this would be a really good opportunity for us to talk again and get some information about what you do because we refer people to you guys regularly. And if you could just jump in, say who you are, what you do and give a little bit about yourself so that we can, for the people who didn't watch your first interview. Yeah, for sure. Well, first, thank you so much for having me on. And I'm so excited to be

1:15.5

able to be here because my story is a story of one where I kind of had everything on the outside.

1:22.4

It looked good. But secretly, I was, you know, crumbling with a huge, huge addiction to the P word. I'm going to try not to say the actual word so we don't get in trouble. Am I allowed to say the word or not the word? I mean, at this point, dude, we're adults. And if this gets demonetized, I would rather it sound like an informed adult conversation and not something that's trying to skirt around social media. So say what you want to say. It's not going to hear anything. Cool. So my story is this. You know, in a nutshell,

1:49.0

growing up, I was bullied. I had ADD. I was really dumb, held back, never felt worthy of love.

1:58.1

And my family, you know, they were doing well financially and then all of

2:01.3

a sudden like the bottom fell out and we lost everything during the recession and it was incredibly

2:05.4

scary. And right around that time, I get handed an iPhone and I get asked one time, are you good

2:12.4

with this? It's like, yeah, sure. And I start looking at porn immediately from essentially the age of about 15

2:19.3

for about the next almost 10, 15 years at that point every single day. And I would always just tell

2:25.9

myself, you know, I'll stop when, or I won't get that crazy, or it'll never be that big of a deal.

2:31.9

Or once I get married, I'll be done, right? But the problem was, is that I was trying to heal a pain that I had going on inside that porn obviously couldn't fix. And so I would always just need more and more and more. I've become more and more desensitized to the point where, you know, my fantasies are no longer I'm watching porn. it's I'm trying to live out these things in real life where all of a sudden it's I'm at a bachelor party and I'm trying to talk to the other girls there. It used to be this problem where it's just on a screen and now it's, hey, let me go talk to real people in real life. And then all of a sudden, I mean, literally, and I bring this up because I know how many people

3:07.8

have struggled with this, but it literally turns into things that you never could have

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