I’ve been a Christian all my life but I had a few years where I wasn’t following God. A boy convinced me to lose my virginity and once we broke up I struggled with lust and also with having been convinced that sex outside of marriage was normal and not harmful and yet it always led me to getting hurt.

I made the decision again to wait until marriage because I wanted to save myself for my husband. I didn’t want to have sex with anyone else except for my husband.

But being single and knowing what you’re missing out on physically can be hard at times. It’s not worth the hurt it brings but you don’t think about that. All you can think about it how physically pleasing it is and how good it feels.

I struggle with this a lot but at the same time when a guy I’m interested in mentions sex or that he doesn’t see anything wrong with having sex before marriage I instantly am turned off by him and stop considering dating him.

Does anyone else struggle with this?