When we became more dedicated to our faith, we learned we had to give up sex before marriage.
I'm a guy who really enjoyed his (soon to be) wife. But I felt like I was supposed to stop having sex with this woman. My prayers went something like this: "Really God? That's what you want me to do? But we're getting married in just a couple months. What's the big deal about it? Isn't getting married enough? Why do we need to stop having sex?" I never got up the courage to pray about moving out. I was afraid of what the answer might be.
Brigham Young University researchers say abstaining from sex makes for better marriage.
Couples who wait 'til "I do" to do it might be happier with the quality of sex and enjoy a stable, happier marriage than couples who have sex before they take their vows. So says a new study which appears in the Journal of Family Psychology.
A five-year marriage with no sex: the true story of a divorced virgin.
How I became a divorced virgin: "I was twenty-nine, single again after a five-year marriage, and a virgin. When I met my now ex-husband Mike, I had just turned 21. We met at small Catholic liberal arts college, and even though I no longer believed in Jesus, the Saints, the Bible, God, really any of that. I was a virgin then, and I was a virgin when we divorced."
