
I’m saving myself for marriage. The thing is, I really like this guy and when he touches me, I want to go further with him, but I know I can’t. Sometimes I fantasize about making love to him, so that’s why it’s so hard to remain a virgin and I don’t know how much longer I can do it.
Best Answer: The thing I don’t like about these promises of abstinence is that kids are generally persuaded to make them with no understanding of what they’re committing to. That just seems manipulative to me.
You might ask yourself if, knowing what you know now, you still would have made that promise. If not, then perhaps it was for the wrong reasons.
Your options are basically to tough it out, get married quickly, or choose to have sex. The trouble with toughing it out is that it’s so easy to lose control and regret it later. The trouble with getting married is that you might find you rushed into it with the wrong person (or even that you’re not sexually compatible), and then what? And sex can cause its own set of problems, but the thing is that if you approach it responsibly with someone you genuinely love and trust, and use protection- preferably more than one kind- they generally aren’t as serious as an unhappy marriage or unwanted pregnancy.
So perhaps what you should do, whatever you decide, is get on the pill and/or in the habit of carrying protection, just in case. Personally, I believe that there’s nothing wrong with enjoying sex responsibly, whatever religious instuitutions may tell us, but that’s just me. You have to decide for yourself. Good luck, whatever you choose.