Another installment of giving better answers to the questions asked at Debi Pearl’s site message board for the book ‘Preparing To Be A Help Meet’. Many young ladies ask questions on all sorts of different subjects brought up by the book. There was just one big problem, many of the answers stray into either the outright bad and emotionally unhealthy to dangerous. Yes, typical Debi Pearl borderline abusive. Here’s what we’re going to be doing here at NLQ. Every week, once or twice a week, I’ll be posting up one of the questions from the message board and ask you, our readers, to answer that poor soul’s question in a way that is logical, rational and the best possible solution, in other words 180 degree turn from Debi and friends answers. As always all spelling and grammar in the posting is unchanged from the original author.

How do you break a habit of playing on the computer too much?

I’ve always wondered how to spend less time on the computer. Ever since we first got one as a family, I was almost constantly on it. I’ve been given a personal one since then, and that has enabled me to be on here even longer. I want to break this obsession of wanting to do things on here, but I can’t seem to. It’s almost as though I live for the next time I get on and can play. I know it isn’t right, and I know I should be spending my time more wisely, but I can’t seem to.

I’ve always been a writer (and hopefully I always will be), and writing has been my excuse for getting on. But once I do, it takes at least 15 minutes to actually get down and write–and then I am usually distracted with other things! I know this probably all sounds like babbling, but I have to get this out and see what all you ladies think about it. I know my Mom isn’t very happy with how much time I spend on here (today, it was almost all day!), and I’m not happy about wasted time, either.

So basically, my question is: Have you ever been obsessed with playing/doing things on the computer, and if so, how did you break that habit? This has been an ongoing habit, and it will soon be three years since I first had a chance to be on a computer a whole lot. Always since then, I have been on as much as possible. Please help! I want to be a good steward of my time, but I’m not a very good steward right now.

This is something that can be a distraction or problem no matter what your religious beliefs are. YouTube seems to be that black hole time sucker for me. You look at one video and fall down the hole of watching one after another until you look up and realize a couple of hours has passed. The answers she was given were pretty decent, i.e. establish time and work goals and stick to them or even to fast her computer time until the habit of frittering away her time there was broken. If I had to guess what was going on here I’d have to consider that perhaps this young lady’s interactions with others is severely limited by her parents and the computer fills her need for connection. What do you think?

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