In my last two relationships, I didn't masturbate and things went well, but when I've masturbated when in a relationship, things went badly and I ended up being dumped. Is there any myth, curse, or religious belief that explains my situation?
- age 16, Illinois
Several things may be at work here. Most important, your imagination is going wild on you! Why in the world would masturbation affect matters of chance, negatively or otherwise? As for your sports team, do you really think your masturbation habits affect the team's performance? What about all the other fans – do their masturbation behaviors affect the team's performance as well? Is this a punishment God is dealing out, where the team whose fans collectively masturbated less that day are rewarded with a win? Preposterous! I hate to break it to you, but the world, including professional sports franchises, does not revolve around you and your masturbation behavior. Feeling a little guilty about pleasuring ourselves, are we? That said, another factor is that when you masturbate, you may be subconsciously sabotaging things you can control in your life. This may be a defense mechanism to assuage your guilt – if you convince yourself that masturbation's effects extend to much broader aspects of your life, you may become so overcome by guilt that you stop masturbating (as it sounds like you have, on some occasions), temporarily solving the guilt problem. Human psychology is an amazing thing, isn't it? My advice – relax, enjoy yourself, blame your team's performance on the general manager, and chalk up bad luck to "excrement happens."
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I've been masturbating for about 3 years now, but sometimes I notice that whenever I masturbate, I have really bad luck or something bad happens to me – I have a bad day, I mess up something, or a sports team I like loses, things like that.
