Posted by MarsBike on July 03, 2008 at 20:42:47:
In Reply to: Celibacy... or not? posted by Elphaba676 on July 03, 2008 at 15:29:07:
There's no boyfriend deadline for celibacy.
My dad,
for example,
never went on a date until
sophomore year of college,
at which point he started dating my mom,
and they got married a
couple years later.
So I know from his experience that it's quite possible to get married having
never dated until 19 or so.
Now,
maybe you will wind up a nun; it's not for me to say.
But no convent is going to take
someone who comes and says anything like "I haven't found a boyfriend,
so I guess I should be a
nun" -- rather,
you have to have a specific calling to nun-hood for them to take you.
(Not that
being a nun is the only way of living a celibate life,
of course.)