LTR - My (31f) BF (31m) has SOLICITED SEX ONLINE + Catfishing

Long reply but going through the same thing. I'm currently going through getting passed a severe porn "addiction" with my boyfriend (28.) he was to the point he would spend ALL day at work searching for women, would follow women around his work building taking pictures of them, waiting at the stair and escalators and following women up them to try to take pictures under their skirts. He lied about this consistently and hid these things for over a year. He had a fake Facebook account adding high schoolers in the area to save their pictures, a fake instagram, and an email I he would send all these pictures to himself on. I left him for a week when I found out but ultimately decided to come back because I had a shred of hope this man who has lied and deceived me and done terrible things our entire relationship was still somehow the person I fell in love with. It's been only two months since I've come back. We are both in therapy, he has to send me his history on his work computer every single day, there are websites we have agreed together he should not go on, no social media at all, I have his iPhone restrictions on so he can't use his camera or the internet at all. HE agreed to all of this because he wants my trust. He made the decision to do all those things to himself and to me. He decided he wanted to stop, that our relationship was more important than that. It's his decision to make if you want to stay together and move passed it. If you both decide to stay and work passed it, he must go to therapy. I would highly recommend you do as well. My trust for my SO is only slowly still coming back and it's a long road ahead, but I believe I made the right decision to stay. But it ALL depends on him how things will turn out. Don't act like your SO doesn't have control.

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