Why I Hate Being Engaged
Dear Blog World, I'm engaged (if you didn't already know!). And it's the worst. Why, you ask? Because of physical boundaries and the fight for purity. Yep, I said it. And you know it's true. It's the taboo subject many Christians dance around, especially Christian women. We don't want other people knowing that we desire to have sex. We desire to be physically intimate with the one that we love. Phillip and I are champs at trying every method to remain pure in our relationship. From our very first date we decided that we didn't want to kiss until we were at least engaged. And honestly, I can say that we didn't kiss until about 4-5 months into our relationship. And after that we didn't let that be a new standard because we wanted to wait until we were engaged. But once we opened that door it was super tough and any time we "messed up" and kissed each other we felt guilty and ashamed and like we were failures. Not because kissing was...