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Ashley's avatar

Thank you for your honesty. As a woman who is still a virgin in her late 30s I relate to a lot of this. So much of what the church has to say is aimed towards college students or people in their early 20s. They don’t really see people in their 30s and 40s who are single, unmarried, or even divorced and living chastely and adhering to church teaching. There really needs to be more help and community for us.

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Lynna Hale's avatar

I commend and applaud you for your commitment and willingness to be real about being celibate until marriage. I made the same commitment and I was blessed to get married just before my 56th birthday. I don't regret the decision at all. The whole anti-purity culture movement is yet another way the enemy tries to pervert the way God designed marriage and fidelity. May he bless you with continued perseverance in your obedience to his design. The truth is that sex is only a small part of a marital relationship and while it is beautiful, it really isn't the best part or the most important part. The companionship and friendship you experience with a spouse is so much more fulfilling.

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