AITA for lying to my wife about having celiacs so we could have sex?

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Let me give some back ground.

When I (M39) was 11, I began masturbating everyday. It was right in the advent of internet porn and my parents were going through a pretty rough divorce so it was pretty much all I had at the time. I did it everyday and at the peak of my highschool years was doing it 3-4 times a day. During my first sexual encounter when I was 15, I wasn’t able to achieve an erection. This infliction has lasted my whole life. I eventually found a work around where I would watch porn in my or the girls bathroom before sex so I would be hard.

When I first met my wife (F35) this situation worked out until she finally asked why I’d constantly go to the bathroom right before sex. I felt embarrassed to say that I jerk off so much I can’t get hard for anything but porn, so I went with the obvious lie of telling her I have chronic celiacs.

Fast forward 6 years and we are now married and she still believes I have celiacs. She is so sweet about it and has made numerous accommodations with both her and my diet to work around this fake disease.

About a week ago I got very drunk (on wine since I can’t drink beer around her) and fell asleep with my phone open. She went on it and found my reddit, twitter, and porn hub premium accounts all devoted solely to porn. She woke me up in a fury and demanded to know why I was consuming this much porn. I finally came clean to her and admitted both the porn addiction and my lies about celiacs.

She didn’t take it well and has been gone from the house for a few days staying at a friend’s house.

My problem here is that I admitted a lifelong addiction to her which she only found out about by intruding on my personal property and then left me alone. I have a serious problem and she has doing nothing to help and has effectively abandoned me to continue with this addiction. I feel like my wife should be more understanding that my parents got divorced which led me down this dark road, and now it seems she wants to put me through it again.

Posted Aug 3, 2025, 7:12 PM UTC

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