When I was in eighth grade, I made a commitment: I would be stay single and not participate in the “high school dating game.” I had just broken up with my first real boyfriend and decided that I wanted my next boyfriend to be my future husband. I didn’t want to date several guys in my teen years and only have little to offer my future husband when I met him.
I also wanted to do as Song of Solomon 2:7 (MSG) suggests,
“Don’t excite love, don’t stir it up, until the time is ripe—and you’re ready.”
This commitment to staying single, however, was not as easy as I thought it would be. {
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