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October 14th, 2005
How I stopped dating and started living
Two years ago, at the age of thirty, I decided I was tired of waiting for the right guy to come along and made what some people think is a radical choice. Instead of getting ...
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October 7th, 2005
Americans have never lacked for advice. From 17th-century Puritan treatises on avoiding the wrath of God to 21st-century paperbacks on breaking the cycle of codependency, pushy prose has ...
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October 4th, 2005
Growing and Changing in Faith – Together?
In our last BustedHalo poll, we asked how you would handle it if your spouse became significantly more—or less—religious. That question seems to have hit a nerve—and I'm not ...
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September 20th, 2005
The L-Word: Why does this simple emotion trip us up all the time?
In the midst of a full-on argument with my college boyfriend, I told him I loved him for the first time. He'd been shouting, I'd been crying and yelling, ...
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September 11th, 2005
"Pay It Forward"
Kim Statkevicus had it all. A successful, loving husband, a great house in the suburbs, a 13 month old son and another child on the way—the picture ...
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September 10th, 2005
Facts and Feelings: Why Getting to Know Someone Takes Time -- and Not Just a Background Search
In .2 seconds I can do a Google search on anyone. For some people, long lists of hits appear. For others, it'll just be genealogies of random unrelated folks ...
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August 20th, 2005
If you are committed to remaining a virgin until marriage, where do you draw the line on physical intimacy?
Dozens of you responded to our most recent Pure Sex, Pure Love survey about sexual intimacy before marriage-and expressed diverse opinions. Some readers said kissing, handholding and hugging are the only ...
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July 13th, 2005
Struggling with chastity as an adult
I still recall being fifteen and my best-friend Katie asking me the question, would you would be willing to sleep with someone you weren't married to?
I hadn't thought much ...
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July 7th, 2005
Is Premarital Sex ALWAYS a Sin?
Jen, a 26-year-old BustedHalo reader, was seriously dating her boyfriend when they decided to have sex. This relationship “felt different,” she said, and after a lot of thought, she ...
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June 30th, 2005
Let's Talk About Sex: The Argument for Chastity
C.S. Lewis wrote that chastity is the most unpopular of Christian virtues. Yet apparently, we like to talk about it: Dozens of you responded to our BustedHalo survey about ...
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