This is a guest post by Glo Girl Angie Gillikin.
A magazine on my coffee table has a headline that reads: “Guys Reveal: The Sex I’ll Never Forget.” It’s all too common for women to be touted with how to have great sex compared to why you’re not having great sex, but no one ever talks about what happens when you do have sex.
Yes, sex was designed to be great. You might need to perfect it a bit, but good should naturally become great by design – just like anything else in life: practice makes perfect.
So what pains me the most is how society has equated sex to being desirable. If you’re not having sex, you must not be desirable. But what about the ones who have chosen to wait until marriage for sex? The negative connotation of a “virgin” label is almost enough to make you go for it just to say you’ve done it, even if it is only once and even if it becomes one of your greatest regrets.
But the truth is that sex has never saved a dating relationship. I’ve often been told, “I wish I would have waited” by now-married women, because they don’t have anything new to discover physically and sexually in their relationship upon marriage.
So, why wait? God designed sex to be within the confines of marriage. A guy who will wait is one who ultimately respects your body, your heart and the deepest part of your soul. He believes in fighting for you, and he communicates with you with his words instead of assuming you know his feelings based on his actions in the bedroom. He finds ways to romance you without sex. And above all, he respects you.
So, my question is not, “Why wait?” My question is, “Why not wait?”
Angie Gillikin is a single 30-something Texas girl continuously learning to live day by day, trying to live each day to the fullest! Angie is involved in numerous community and charitable activities as well as her church where she’s been a youth, college and singles Bible Study teacher. She loves Rodeo, Dr Pepper, big jewelry, cowboy boots, reading, jogging, crafting, road trips and small towns. In her spare time she writes on her personal blog and spends as much time as possible with her besties and family including The Littles—her nephew and twin nieces. For more about Angie, visit her on Twitter.