Passion and Purity: loneliness
Passion and Purity
Elisabeth Elliot
Nothing was harder for a woman in love to endure and nothing was stronger proof of the character of the man Jim Elliot than his restraint of power...
Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention? Unless she has been asked to marry him, why would a sensible woman promise any man her exclusive attention? If, when the time has come for a commitment, he is not man enough to ask her to marry him, she should give him no reason to presume that she belongs to him.
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There are different levels of intimacy.
The intimacy a girl and a boy share should be different at stages of when they are
• a boyfriend-girlfriend couple,
• engaged, and
• married.
(Which is why I do not like Facebook's "almost married" thingie which couples tag, when they're not even engaged.)
Elisabeth Elliot
Nothing was harder for a woman in love to endure and nothing was stronger proof of the character of the man Jim Elliot than his restraint of power...
Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention? Unless she has been asked to marry him, why would a sensible woman promise any man her exclusive attention? If, when the time has come for a commitment, he is not man enough to ask her to marry him, she should give him no reason to presume that she belongs to him.
-
There are different levels of intimacy.
The intimacy a girl and a boy share should be different at stages of when they are
• a boyfriend-girlfriend couple,
• engaged, and
• married.
(Which is why I do not like Facebook's "almost married" thingie which couples tag, when they're not even engaged.)
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