Hi. My name is Jess and I am 28. I live in Chicago and I work as a theater stage manager. I found this through my friend Mara and I am excited to delve into the many entries I need to catch up on. I grew up in church and I went to Oral Roberts University for my undergrad. I jokingly call myself a liberal conservative or a conservative liberal depending on the audience.
I have been doing a lot of discussion in my 20's with frustrated girlfriends and clueless guy friends on the topic of relationships. It sometimes seems that in the zeal that many of us were indoctrinated with "Don't do those things. It's bad." we jumped to the extreme other side and have not educated ourselves, which is just scary. I have had a number of friends who got married, but still felt guilty at the concept of consummating it, afraid to talk about it and I just felt sadness. Sex is something should be a good thing in a marriage, not a stressful taboo!
I am currently single and I am still a virgin. As startling as that fact is to some of my theater friends who know this, it is just as startling to some of my church friends that I try to educate myself so thoroughly: asking questions, reading books, and talking with those with experience. Learn from others!
That said, I look forward to learning more about you all and from you all. With mentions of tea, quotes and C.S. Lewis, I thought I would end with a quote incorporating all three :)
"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me." C. S. Lewis
An introduction. We shall see how proper it turns out...
I have been doing a lot of discussion in my 20's with frustrated girlfriends and clueless guy friends on the topic of relationships. It sometimes seems that in the zeal that many of us were indoctrinated with "Don't do those things. It's bad." we jumped to the extreme other side and have not educated ourselves, which is just scary. I have had a number of friends who got married, but still felt guilty at the concept of consummating it, afraid to talk about it and I just felt sadness. Sex is something should be a good thing in a marriage, not a stressful taboo!
I am currently single and I am still a virgin. As startling as that fact is to some of my theater friends who know this, it is just as startling to some of my church friends that I try to educate myself so thoroughly: asking questions, reading books, and talking with those with experience. Learn from others!
That said, I look forward to learning more about you all and from you all. With mentions of tea, quotes and C.S. Lewis, I thought I would end with a quote incorporating all three :)
"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
C. S. Lewis