TRUE LOVE WAITS, IS IT TRUE?

Research indicates that most teenagers have or will engage in sexual intercourse and or oral sex prior to graduation from secondary school, most with more than one partner. Such behaviour may result in adverse physical and psychological consequences.

However, experts say empirical evidence related to mental and emotional capabilities of teenagers suggests that most teenagers lack the cognitive and emotional maturity to make wise choices regarding teenage and adolescent sex.

As a result of this fact, it is always advisable to wait. YES, WAIT! Whether it is true or not that true love waits, waiting for the right time to engage in sexual activities may be the best decision ever for adolescents and young adults. There is really no rush.

Make a commitment to keep yourself pure until marriage okay, at least until a time that you are able to make informed decisions about sex, and are able to deal with its consequences. Because, boy, does sex come with a load of consequences, psychological, emotional and otherwise.

Waiting will afford you the rare, but special opportunity to delay sexual debut for marriage, through abstinence.

This is no easy road, especially now in the midst of massive peer and societal pressure. Once a decision has been taken, one would have to keep reminding themselves of their big choice.

This kind of discipline would also be beneficial to even married couples on how to safeguard their marriage institution with faithfulness.

Committing to abstinence would help teenagers and young adults reap the benefits of waiting and not rushing into romantic, sexual relationships. This may ultimately lead and contribute to healthy and balanced families that can build a strong nation.

Through abstinence, young people are able to prevent themselves from contacting sexually transmitted infections and diseases.

In addition, delaying and avoiding romantic relationships may guard and protect youngsters from heartbreak, which now contributes to mental illness and alarming numbers of suicide.

A lot of young people go through stress and depression, most of the time due to sexual relationships. Waiting for marriage may help raise a healthy family with less issues to worry about, for example, trust issues, and handling of children born outside wedlock and those within the marriage institution.

During waiting, a young person has ample time to discover themselves, their potential, grow and invest in their future. It is this time that can also afford a young person to imagine and have a clear picture of the kind of family they want to raise in the future.

While they are lured into doing it, what many young people do not know and understand is that sexual intercourse is more than just a physical connection between two people. There are deep emotional and spiritual connections that come with having sex.

The good book clearly points it out in 1 Corinthians 6:16 that ‘Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her body? For it is said, the two will become one flesh. So consider waiting!