Virgin Diaries

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Another thing about evangelical culture: not only do you get married within like 6-8 months of being engaged (after only dating for like 5 months) but the general expectation is that you will immediately start your family.

So in many cases, you met, got engaged to and married someone within like a year, THEN you get pregnant within a month or 2 of your wedding. That's a for sure recipe for marital bliss.

There's also the whole Christian culture thing of a woman getting married at 20 having never lived on her own. Like, you live with your parents or go straight from your college dorm (which is not living alone) to living with your husband. I personally think that nobody should get married without having lived independently.

I watched a True Life ep about virgins and there was a girl who was 19, getting married, and going straight from her PARENT'S home to her apt with her husband. She cried a lot just because going from living at home to living with a man is a shock.

Originally Posted by Leslie Anne

Yeah, that kiss was really nauseating.

I'm concerned that these couples might end up realizing down the road that they weren't really in love, they were in lust.

It happens. But they generally think that divorce is a "no no" so they stay together, miserably.

I listened to a sermon by a pastor once and he mentioned what he says to couples during pre-marital counseling and it was something like "if you're doing this because you want to sleep together and live together as quickly as possible, get out of my office." I LOLed.