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Originally Posted by scaeagles
CP, you're right - there are innumerable valuable lessons. For us, the linking of the ring to the sex talk is because we link sex to marriage, and marriage typically involves the exchange of rings.
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Off the top of my head - concepts that, to me, are just as important to healthy marriages/relationships as good sex habits: Trust, sharing, commitment, empathy, responsibility, honesty. I still don't get why "not having sex until marriage" is the one that gets the ring.
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The whole concept of "pure" relates to the biblical concept of sexual purity. This is the standard the we (speaking of my family) try to live up to but inevitably fall short of.
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Ok, right there is the problem that you're not getting. You're saying you try to live up to this purity concept but "fall short". From that we infer that other people that decide to have sex earlier are definitely "falling short". This in turn says that
people that have sex when they feel they have reached the correct point to do so are UNPURE. This insults all those people and I think that's wrong.
This is my last post on this - I don't think I could make it any more clear than that.