Love and sex are wonderful on their own, but greater than the sum of their parts when combined! Almost anyone can have sex, not everyone can fall in love. Touching bodies is lust, touching souls is love. True love is about caring for another person and putting that person's happiness above your own. It's about feeling comfortable enough with each other to fully share your wants and desires. So, when you can share your love and life together and be faithful to one another, then you have found true love. Sex will come later when both parties are ready. Love weathers the test of time, failing health and life's challenges. Sex may fade or end but, true love endures and will carry a couple through, together in the face of all adversity.

Couples who don't experience emotional intimacy, have unsatisfying sex lives. Emotional intimacy is like 24/7 foreplay. When we feel really close to each other, the mental foreplay never stops. Your mind is intimately connected all the time. The whole point of waiting for sex is to make sure that the relationship is on solid ground...that it is committed and that you discover lots of things about the other person and how they are. The first month or two is about discovery of the person...not only about the romantic times and the "gee, isn't it amazing that we both like opera and square dancing...that must mean we were definitely meant for each other". It is about the deeper things...how he or she deals with disagreements, how he or she deals with others when they are no longer trying to impress you etc. The real person comes out once they are no longer trying to get you hooked. That is why it is wise to wait. There needs to be enough time to get past the euphoric relief stage of "oh wow, I am so excited I met someone and I am no longer alone". If you are worth it to them, they will wait. If you are not, then you have saved yourself alot of heartbreak.

 "Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves."
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin