I’m wondering how much one boundary would change the beginning of a relationship. If I were interested in a woman and she told me she wanted to wait until marriage to have sex for religious reasons, would I still want to get to know her and see where things went?
In this situation, waiting would be something she believed in. I’d have to understand that as part of getting to know her, with no assumption that more time together would change her mind.
That’s what makes the question feel bigger than a simple yes or no. At the beginning, I wouldn’t know whether we’d ever want to get married. I’d only know that I liked her enough to consider another date, another conversation, more time together.
Would that be enough for me to keep going? Could I enjoy finding out who she was while accepting that sex wouldn’t be part of dating her?
I can imagine being interested and still having an honest hesitation. I can also imagine wanting to know more before deciding that this one difference settled everything.
So that’s the question: if you were into a woman who wanted to wait until marriage for religious reasons, would you keep getting to know her? Or would you already know you couldn’t pursue the relationship?
