If you look at your pain as a personal tragedy, without exploring its deeper causes, you will ensure that you will encounter it again in your future. The struggle is not with temptation. Temptation is a gift. It is a magnet that draws your awareness to potential negativity that would create painful consequences if it were to stay unconscious. Temptation is an opportunity to have a dry run at a life situation, which if you can see clearly, can be healed without affecting others.
Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.
It is an exquisite dynamic that allows you to challenge and heal negativity within yourself or to heal parts of yourself within your own private world of energy, without spilling into the larger energy of other souls. As you choose not to act out an experience that you know would create negative karma, you begin the process of gaining power over that part of yourself that desires you to behave in that way. You might think of temptation as the challenging dynamic of the human experience. The energy that challenged Jesus of Nazareth who become the Christ, that challenged Sidharta Gautama who become the Buddha, challenges you. It challenges the accountant to steal, the student to cheat, the spouse to adultery, and the personality to external power.