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Originally Posted by Heavenguard
I wouldn't be able to tell you who taught me to abstain till marriage, really. But I did grow up in the Catholic school system till I was 17, and in my church from 6 till now - I'm sure I picked it up somewhere along the way. I do remember who taught me to respect romantic relationships, though. I was about 12 or 13, and the person said something like: Treat your other person the way you would have wanted his last girlfriend (or boyfriend - I'm a girl) to have treated him. Do you want a guy that another girl has been all over? No, you don't. And you never know - any current relationship might end. He may have to face his special someone later - do you want to be the person that "ruins" that?
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God bless you. How I wish someone could have said something like that to my wife when she was a child! I cannot describe the emotional damage I've suffered and the scars that will accompany me to my deathbed. It really sucks to know that the candy store was repeatedly and enthusiastically looted before you showed up to PAY for yours, and to feel like the shelves are bare as a result. I bought the cow, only to learn that the milk was gone, stolen by thieves who came before me. And now there is little or none left for me, though I paid for it.
If the Church isn't already making this point (discretely, of course) with the youth, I strongly hope it will start.