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Searching for and finding "Mr. Right"
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
I’d been in a committed relationship for 12 years, when my life began to change. While my boyfriend and I wanted to get married someday, we weren’t sure that we were the right choice for each other. As I studied Christian Science and got deeper into what it means to live a spiritually healthy lifestyle, I found that my attitude toward living together without the commitment of marriage was changing. We put the relationship on a platonic basis while we decided about marriage. Within a month my boyfriend and I knew we should break up. This move was the result of a lot of prayer on my part and it felt right.
But then I was confronted with a new challenge. For the first time in many years, I had to think about dating. For most of my life, I’d wanted to have a husband and children, and generally thought of dating as the first step towards them.
I thought about dating in the context of what I was learning in Christian Science about morality and chastity. I’d always thought that chastity was like celibacy, so it was good for priests, but not something that was relevant to my life. But when I looked up the word’s meaning, I realized that chastity respects and affirms the virtue of sexuality inside a marriage. That was a new idea for me but one that I now found very appealing.
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