Outback Jack's Journey

  My Boundaries May 2024 I will keep sexual or romantic conduct/contact only with my wife (so with anyone else I will not engage in: erotic chat, requesting/sending erotic or naked pictures, naked video, touching in the underwear area, cuddling, etc).  To meet my needs safely, I will: Meet with other SSA men in public*.  If a private situation with an SSA man is unavoidable, I will: check in before with my support men (Matt, Paul, Owie, Richard, Doug, Scott), give an expected timeframe, and check in at the end. I will also notify the other man that no touching is to occur in that time of being in private. Have non-sexual physical contact with other SSA men in public*, such as hugs (but no touching in the underwear area). Any ‘holding’ to be done only with having at least one other person present and holding done visualising the ‘golden father’ in line with Brother’s Road guidelines for ‘golden father holding’.  Engage in any nudity: without any sexual touching of myself or others, and

As far as I know the Journey Into Manhood (JiM) weekend is the only weekend IN THE WORLD specifically designed for men with same sex attraction. I'd been connected with Brothers Road for many years, but lived in Australia. I watched JiM weekends advertised in US states that I'd never heard of and imagined them to be far away from the east coast that was at least "close" to Australia. If I'd known my distances better, I would have realised that Sydney to Los Angeles is 12,000km (or 7,500 miles) and Sydney to Indiana is only 25% more (15,000km or 9,300 miles). I had hoped that a JiM weekend would run in California one day, but it didn't happen. So I continued my "passive recovery" in Australia. "Passive recovery" is what I now call the period of time when I realised that the issues coming up in my life around my same sex attraction were serious, and I thought I was taking action, but really I was still in denial to myself, trying to make cha