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Sarah Larue

April 4, 2024 By Sarah Larue Leave a Comment

When the Enemy Lies

I was sitting in the garden outside of an Adoration Chapel next to a guy who was mocking, manipulating, pouting, pushing, trying to worm his way past my guard, and throwing a huge pity party for himself because I would not let him kiss me.

We had known each other for three months and this was our first date. I had told him he could kiss my cheek, but that did not give him enough pleasure, and pleasure was the reason he came, not me. As often as I had to move his hands, it was obvious a simple kiss would not have satisfied him either. Lust can never be satisfied. Two years later he apologized to me when a priest told him to, and after Our Lady had worked beautifully in his life. But that night he was very wounded, very bitter, and let that affect how he treated me.

It’s not an unusual story. Sadly, it happens all the time. (That does not make it any less sinful.) But that night always stood out to me because I have never felt a blacker or deeper depression and hopelessness.

For several years most of my prominent relationships, both boyfriends and friends, had been psychologically and emotionally unhealthy in the extreme, and I had not healed from them. There were plenty of highly demoralizing guys in passing (like this one) and also my best friend of many years had recently walked out of my life when she did not understand what was going on in my relationships.

There had been some red flags with this guy, but all I heard was my friend’s parting words: “you’re too picky with men, you’re hard and self-righteous and demanding.” I didn’t want to be like that, so I ignored the red flags, and was now sitting with a guy who had forgotten about kissing any part of my face and was whispering in my ear requests a man should only make to his wife.

All I could think was – this will never change. I was twenty-seven and still single, but something was always seriously wrong. This is all there was. No man would ever understand. No man loved and wanted purity with all his heart. I would never find a guy who loved me more than his own pleasure. I was an idealist. I was the only one this crazy. I would always be alone.

If you have any standards of how a man should behave with you (and how he should behave when he is not with you) you face the same thing. You know practicing virtue doesn’t feel virtuous. All you feel is completely miserable. You remember all the ways you aren’t perfect and think you must be a self-righteous fraud to keep holding these standards. You can’t remember at all the beauty of a pure relationship. You feel wretched. You feel sick. You have no friends, no prospects, no hope. There is nothing but filth and ugliness and using people, and because you don’t want this you are doomed to eternal loneliness.

I didn’t tell this guy no for any saintly reason. I wasn’t thinking of God – I felt like a radical fool, how could I claim God was as radical as I am? I wasn’t thinking of my future husband – I didn’t believe the man I wanted existed. I only said no because in all the depression and misery I knew if I abandoned any of my standards, even the smallest, it would not make anything better.

That is a story from three years ago. In five months, I will be getting married.

If you have not reached that part of your story yet, I want to reiterate with you – every lie the enemy throws at you in your blackest moments IS A LIE.

There was only one negative thought that night with any truth in it – that I would “never have a man who met my standards” because my fiancé does not meet my standards, he surpasses them.

His good Catholic persona does not disappear when we are alone, nor do I have to worry about his behavior when we are apart. I have never had to tell him no. He has never made me uncomfortable. He has never grasped after me, physically or emotionally. He has never looked at me and failed to see all of me, the entire person. He has never put his own pleasure or desires ahead of me or my wishes. Everything I never thought a man would be, he is. I have never had a relationship so personal or so close. Every virtue or striving for virtue which others mocked me for having, he is in love with and supports completely and shares with me. With him, I am nothing but cherished, respected, and loved. 

This is not the entire end of the story either. Before meeting my fiancé, God sent a great deal of healing to me through the Echo Community where I volunteered the following summer helping with their retreats. One of my fellow missionaries quickly became my new best friend and is now one of my bridesmaids. I have nine bridesmaids and a guest list that keeps growing longer and longer. It shows how many good people God has brought into my life. If you focus on God, He will not fail to send friends who can support you in your relationship with Him.

Whether you are older or younger than doesn’t matter. Many girls I know are happily married around twenty-two surrounded by good friends. I just had to wait longer than they, and you may have to wait longer than I. What is true is that God wants nothing less for every one of His daughters than to be cherished, reverenced, and loved. That is the love He has in store for you, whenever that day may come. So never settle for less. Trust me, His plans are too good to miss. 

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                                                                                                                  Sarah Larue is the author of nine books, who loves her Faith and writing, and is happiest when putting them together. Currently, she is working on a second edition of her latest series That They Might Have Love, a series for all Catholic young women who want to seek God first in their love lives and find greater love and joy when they are single, dating, and married.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

Filed Under: Dating, Finding Love, Relationships

September 2, 2022 By Sarah Larue Leave a Comment

What your body is worth

When someone sins against purity, the devil uses two very destructive lies to keep that person down. The two lies are actually the same lie, but they sound like opposites. In this way your enemy tricks you into believing they are the only two options you have. You need to make sure that you know and acknowledge only the truth about yourself.

Don’t say “I am no longer pure.” After sin it is true that your soul needs cleansing in Confession. You will also need to work with God on purifying your focus and desires. But the “I” in “I am not pure” includes your entire person, soul and body. So it leaves the lie in your heart that your body is no longer pure or objectively good, no longer beautiful or sacred because of what you did with it. Your heart instinctively knows this is not true, and you cannot bear the burden of shame this lie brings. Sadly many people see no way out and live in this shame.

Or, protesting that the former lie cannot be true, they fall into the second trap of believing our enemy’s “opposite” lie.

Don’t say to yourself, “It didn’t matter. It’s not that big of a deal. Other people have done worse anyway.” This lie promises relief from shame, but it brings no relief only sadness. If your actions with your body don’t matter that means your body does not matter. Again, that is a serious, debilitating lie, for how sad and pointless is my life if the body I live my life in does not matter? And it is the same lie, for the first lie says “your body is now worth less” whereas this lies says “your body was always worthless.” The enemy HATES your body for he hates the image of God, so this is exactly what he wants us to believe.

Instead, acknowledge the full truth. “My body was, is, and always will be, glorious, beautiful, and sacred. Because of its great value it deserves to be treated with the highest purity and honor. But I used this beautiful gift for self-absorbed sterile pleasures. I allowed it to be lusted after and used. But my body is still glorious, beautiful, and sacred, so I will not fail again to respect its glory.”

And be gentle with yourself when you say, “I did not honor my body.” Maybe you failed out of ignorance. That isn’t your fault! Maybe the passing pleasure of that sin looked incredibly sweet and you didn’t want to miss out on happiness. It is true that you deserve happiness. Or maybe you were feeling overwhelmed with loneliness, despair, fear, isolation, bitterness, insecurity etc. So you gave in to a sin that promised relief from your pain. All of those feelings are very understandable and can be extremely hard to bear. The problem comes if we choose to focus on those feelings instead of what our bodies are worth.

So to avoid failing your body in the future, do these two things. First, avoid the near occasion of sin. Our heavenly Father asks us to promise Him this every time we go to Confession, because He loves us so much and knows how much we need to do this. Avoid temptation and compromising situations like the plague! Your body is worth the highest level of protection.

Second, spend time every single day with Jesus, ideally in His bodily presence in the Eucharist, and ask Him to remind you how much your body is worth. If you know this truth you will not act out of ignorance again. If you remember this truth, you will remember what will truly bring you joy, and that this deceptive lie will only let you down hard. And the more you hear Jesus speak the truth over you, the easier it will be to hold on to that truth and act accordingly, no matter how oppressive your feelings happen to be at the moment.

Do not be afraid to ask Jesus how much your body is worth. He has already told us and He is longing to remind you. He died on the cross for the sake of our bodies, to save both our souls and bodies, so that we could be resurrected body and soul to spend eternity physically present with Him. Jesus said your body, the one you’re sitting in right now, is worth every drop of God’s Own Blood. And Jesus cannot lie.

So go to Him all day every day, and never forget your worth.

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Sarah Larue is a 28-year-old author of nine books, who loves her Faith and loves writing, and is happiest when putting them together. Her latest series That They Might Have Love is for all Catholic young women who want to seek God first in their love lives and find greater love and joy when they are single, dating, and married.

Filed Under: Sexual Healing, Starting Over

February 8, 2022 By Sarah Larue Leave a Comment

Dear Future Husband…

My Beloved,

Why are you so sad tonight? What happened? What is it you wish you could go back and change?

I understand how you feel. Everyone has something we wish we could undo. I am so sorry you are going through such pain, sadness, and anger. I am angry too, but not with you. I am furious with the evils in this world that hurt you, lied to you, manipulated you, tempted you, and left you without the guidance or love you needed. It doesn’t matter to me if or how much you may have been at fault. Why should it? All I know is I love you, and I hate to see anything hurt you.

Are you afraid of telling me what happened? Please don’t be. When someone truly loves you, you don’t ever have to be afraid. Do you fear I will reject you? Never. I pray that no one you may date ever makes you feel unworthy of their love. Jesus says you can run to Him exactly as you are, and since you are good enough for His love you are good enough for anyone! When I am the one you are dating, I pray that God will give me the right words to let you know how much I love you, honor you, and respect you.

Are you afraid that what you have to say will hurt me? It will, but only because it hurt you. How can anything that hurt you not hurt me when I love you? But do not fear you have given away something you can now never give to me.

After all, God is love and He created the act of love. In everything that goes with it, whether you are beholding someone’s full beauty, touching them, or creating new life with them, it can only be love when God is involved. God has no part in sin, so whatever you may have done, you have still never yet shared the experience with someone of making love.

It is sad that you once experienced actions so profoundly lacking in love. But I won’t be jealous because that is not what I want anyway. Whatever happened between you and another is not at all what I want to happen between you and me. I want something completely different and so much better for us. A sacrament is fundamentally different from a sin, even one done in ignorance with good intentions. In a sacrament God gives us to each other so that we may lay down our lives for the true and eternal good of the beloved. I don’t want us to use one another for a time but to cherish one another forever.

So, you see, the only way I could ever lose the purity of your love, the only way I can meet you and find that your gift of self is not set apart for me, is not what may have happened in the past. The only way that could happen is if we run away from God, because then we would not be capable of loving each other purely and giving ourselves fully. That would be the tragedy, the only way anything could be permanently lost. But we won’t let that happen.

However, if we are going to share a love so much better than anything we have known before, we need to get ready. My love, run to God. Only He can heal you and help you to break destructive patterns. Only He can infuse you with His grace to flee temptations and grow in the virtues needed to love. Please don’t despair or settle and pull away from Him because of your pain. Let Jesus love you extravagantly, for you deserve to be respected and cherished, and I want nothing more for you than this.

I promise I will be trying my best to follow Christ and let Him always change me more and more into someone able to love you fully. Please do the same for me. While we are yet unknown to each other we can still work for each other, and then when we meet we will be capable of sharing this kind of beautiful love.

My dearest, I have the greatest respect for any struggles and sufferings you go through to reject counterfeit love. I have struggled with plenty of my own sins, and I know how hard it can be. Your daily choice to open yourself to God and let Him bring you to the right path so that we can be together deserves the highest honor. If you only knew how much I admire you! When I think of the magnificent gift God wants to give to me in you, I am truly humbled and overwhelmed with joy and gratitude. I love you, honor you, and respect you forever.

I can’t wait for the day I’ll meet you! I long for when we are together and can share our Faith and joys, our work and interests, our sorrows and trials, and everything in our lives. And of course, I’m looking forward to that beautiful day when we stand at the altar before God and both of us finally become one.

Know that you are always in my prayers. Please pray for me. I love you.

With all my love,

Your future spouse

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 Sarah Karlyn Larue is a 27-year-old author of eight books, who loves her Faith and loves writing and is happiest when putting them together. Her latest series, That They Might Have Love, is for all Catholic young women who want to seek God first in their love lives and find greater love and joy when they are single, dating, and married.

Filed Under: Dating, Engagement, Relationships, Relationships, Starting Over

January 23, 2022 By Sarah Larue Leave a Comment

IL PROBLEMA DELL’AFFETTO PRECOCE

Le ragazze, me inclusa, dicono spesso le seguenti frasi sui ragazzi:

“Tutto quello che vuole fare (un ragazzo) è sedersi sul divano ed essere amichevole!”

“Una volta che lascio che un ragazzo mi metta le braccia intorno al corpo, non vuole più fare nient’altro!”

“È molto più innamorato del mio corpo che di me.”

Penso, persino, di aver offeso un ragazzo anni fa.  Voleva abbracciarmi e gli risposto dicendo che volevo estirpare le erbacce del suo giardino.  (Lo so! si tratta di scarso tempismo.) Non stavamo facendo niente di “cattivo”, ma c’erano anche molte cose buone che non stavamo facendo.  Il suo comportamento era rispettoso, ma la sua attenzione era quasi interamente sul mio corpo.  Ci frequentavamo da soli tre mesi e mi sentivo come se la nostra amicizia fosse scomparsa.  Volevo che tirassimo via insieme le erbacce.  Volevo che lavorassimo fianco a fianco.  Volevo che scherzassimo spesso come facevamo una volta, magari lanciandoci erbacce l’un l’altro, e che fossimo amici.

È facile per i cattolici pensare “non stiamo cadendo nel peccato, quindi qual è il problema?”  Se non stai peccando, bene!  Ma l’obiettivo degli appuntamenti non è solo quello di evitare il peccato.  L’obiettivo è trovare e coltivare un amore genuino.

L’apprezzamento del corpo non è male.  Il corpo è cosa buona e Dio stesso ha reso l’attrazione sessuale così potente.  Ma nei primi giorni di costruzione di una relazione non dovremmo, semplicemente, incoraggiare il l’infatuazione.  Ci sono troppe altre cose che una relazione sana ha bisogno di mettere in atto prima dell’infatuazione.  Una volta che inizia il divertimento ipnotizzante dell’affetto, la comunicazione, la risoluzione dei problemi e la condivisione degli obiettivi della tua vita vengono spazzati via, a volte per sempre.

San Giovanni Paolo II ne parla in Amore e responsabilità (206): «Tale tenerezza prematura nell’unione di un uomo e di una donna molto spesso distrugge l’amore, o almeno impedisce che si sviluppi pienamente, di maturare sia interiormente che oggettivamente in una  amore genuino”.

L’affetto prematuro, anche l’affetto innocente, ostacolerà solo una relazione, non la aiuterà.  Porta avanti la storia d’amore mentre l’amicizia è ancora molto precoce.  Crea un’illusione sulla tua relazione e le persone si fanno male.  L’impurità non è altro che mentire con il tuo corpo.  La purezza è dire la verità con il tuo corpo sulla relazione che vivi realmente.

Sia gli uomini che le donne possono farsi male in questo modo, ma le donne sembrano particolarmente vulnerabili.  A meno che non sia stata desensibilizzata a causa di peccati o abusi a lungo termine (che è tragico e non come è stata creata), una donna non è in grado di separare il suo cuore dal suo corpo.  Quando un uomo tocca il suo corpo, anche in modo appropriato, sta toccando il suo cuore.  Se una donna diventa per un uomo il centro del suo mondo, la sua priorità assoluta e la sua amica intima e profonda quando è tra le sue braccia, il cuore di una donna si aspetterà lo stesso trattamento quando non è tra le sue braccia, anche quando la sua intelligenza comprende bene che ciò non è vero.  In altre patole: quando una loro relazione è troppo giovane è dificile che una donna sia già la priorità assoluta di un uomo e un’amica intima e profonda.

La quantità eccessiva di affetto ricevuto è come se mentisse al cuore di una donna che presto si sentirà tradita.  La donna, infatti, si sentirà ferita, arrabbiata, ed esigerà dall’uomo tempo e dedizione, per questo motivo si arrabbierà persino delle sue aperture romantiche.  Ma la maggior parte delle giovani donne non ha abbastanza esperienza o consapevolezza di sé per individuare da dove proviene tutta questa rabbia.  E se lei non lo sa, il ragazzo di certo non potrà immaginarselo!  Egli la vedrà solo reagire in modo eccessivo e se ne andrà.  Questo renderà la ragazza ancora più arrabbiata.  È il ripetersi di un ciclo distruttivo.

Ragazzi, ricordate che bisogna custodite i nostri cuori proteggendo i propri corpi dall’affetto prematuro.  Ragazze, ricordate che i ragazzi sono visivi e facilmente stimolabili per cui non ostentate o stuzzicateli con ciò che non possono toccare fino al matrimonio.  Ma aiutatevi a vicenda a concentrarvi prima sulla costruzione della vostra amicizia,  aiutatevi a vicenda per “evitare la prossima occasione della prematurità”.  Non state svegli fino a tardi da soli insieme.  Non passate ore seduti da soli insieme.  Mantenete la maggior parte degli appuntamenti in pubblico o con gruppi di amici.  Trascorrete il tempo riversandolo in interessi reciproci e condividendo i diversi interessi l’uno con l’altro.  Solo così che le amicizie crescono in profondità e fortezza.

Sì! Bisogna ripetere di nuovo la parola di 7 lettere preferita da tutti: aspetta!  Ma una volta capito cosa farà davvero crescere il tuo amore, sarai disposto ad aspettare?  Se esci da solo con qualcuna da diversi mesi, sei ancora in procinto di diventare amico di quella persona?  Allora perché essere ti spingi verso esperienze più che amichevoli?  Un po’ di affetto può essere buono, ma non quando oscura tutto il resto.  Mantieni l’affetto breve, dolce e semplice.  Concentrati prima sulla costruzione di un’amicizia profonda e provata nel tempo e il tuo amore sarà sorprendente.

Ai uomini dico: “La saggezza di un uomo gli dà pazienza”.  Proverbi 19:11

Alle donne dico: “Vi scongiuriamo, figlie di Gerusalemme, per le gazzelle e le cerve dei campi, non suscitate, non suscitate amore prima che sia tempo”.  Cantico dei Cantici 2:7

Se lo farete, le vostre relazioni non saranno solo buone, ma davvero le migliori che possiate avere.

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Sarah Karlyn Larue è un’autrice di otto libri di 27 anni che ama la sua fede e scrivere ed è molto felice quando riesce a coniugare queste 2 passioni.  La sua ultima serie, That They Might Have Love è per tutte le giovani donne cattoliche che vogliono cercare Dio prima nella loro vita amorosa e trovare amore e gioia più grandi quando sono single, frequentanti e sposate.

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January 20, 2022 By Sarah Larue Leave a Comment

The problem with premature affection

“All he wants to do is sit on the sofa and be chummy!”

“Once I let a guy put his arms around me he never wants to do anything else!”

“He’s a lot more in love with my body than he is with me.”

I hear this from girls repeatedly. Often, I’m the one saying it.

I think I offended one boyfriend years ago. He wanted to put his arms around me and I told him I wanted to pull weeds in his backyard. (I know! Poor timing.) We weren’t doing anything “bad,” but there were a lot of good things we weren’t doing either. His behavior was respectful, but his focus was almost entirely on my body. We had only been dating three months and I felt like our friendship had disappeared. I wanted us to pull weeds together. I wanted us to work side by side. I wanted us to joke back and forth like we used to, maybe throw weeds at each other—be friends.

It’s easy for Catholics to think “we’re not falling into sin, so what’s the problem?” If you’re not sinning, great! But the goal of dating isn’t just to avoid sin. The goal is to find and grow genuine love.

Appreciation of the body isn’t bad. The body is good, and God Himself made sexual attraction this powerful. It’s simply that in the early days of building a relationship it’s not time to encourage infatuation yet. There are too many other things a healthy relationship needs to set in place first. Once the mesmerizing fun of affection begins, communication, solving problems, and sharing your life goals get brushed aside, sometimes forever.

St. John Paul II addresses this in Love and Responsibility (206): “Such premature tenderness in the association of a man and a woman quite often destroys love, or at least prevents it from developing fully, of ripening both internally and objectively into a genuine love.”

Premature affection, even innocent affection, will only hinder a relationship, not help it. It rushes the romance ahead while the friendship is still far behind. It creates an illusion about your relationship and people get hurt. Impurity is nothing but lying with your body. Purity is telling the truth with your body about the relationship you actually have.

Both men and women can get hurt this way, but women seem especially vulnerable. Unless she has been desensitized through long-term sin or abuse (which is tragic and not how she was created) a woman isn’t capable of separating her heart from her body. When a man touches her body—even appropriately—he’s touching her heart. If she’s the center of his world, his top priority, and his deep, intimate friend when she’s in his arms, her heart will expect the same treatment when she’s not in his arms—even when her head knows better. But it’s not true. Their relationship is way too young for her to be his top priority and deep, intimate friend yet.

The amount of affection lies to her heart. Soon her heart feels betrayed. She becomes hurt, angry, demanding of his time and attention, and even resents his romantic overtures. But most young women don’t have enough experience or self-awareness to pinpoint where her anger comes from. If she doesn’t know, the guy certainly doesn’t! He only sees her over-reacting and blows it off. This makes the girl angrier. It’s a destructive cycle.

Guys, please remember you guard our hearts by guarding our bodies from premature affection. Girls, remember guys are visual and easily stimulated. Don’t flaunt or tease them with what they can’t touch until marriage. Help each other to focus on building your friendship first. Help each other to “avoid the near occasion of prematurity.” Don’t stay up late alone together. Don’t spend hours sitting alone together. Keep most dates in public, or with groups of friends. Spend your time pouring over your mutual interests and sharing your different interests with each other. That’s how friendships grow deep and strong.

Yes! It’s everyone’s favorite four-letter-word again: wait. But once you understand what will truly grow your love, you’ll be willing to wait. If you’ve only been dating for several months, you’re still in the process of becoming friends. So why be more than friendly? Some affection can be good, but not when it overshadows everything else. Keep affection short, sweet, and simple. Focus on building a deep, time-tested friendship first, and your love will be amazing.

Gentlemen: “A man’s wisdom gives him patience.” Proverbs 19:11

Ladies: “We adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and hinds of the field, do not arouse, do not stir up love before it’s own time.” Song of Songs 2:7

If you do this, your relationships will not only be good, they will be the best.

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Sarah Karlyn Larue is a 27-year-old author of eight books, who loves her Faith and loves writing and is happiest when putting them together. Her latest series, That They Might Have Love is for all Catholic young women who want to seek God first in their love lives and find greater love and joy when they are single, dating, and married.

Filed Under: Dating, How Far is Too Far?, How to Stay Pure, Relationships

June 16, 2021 By Sarah Larue

Freely and With Full Consent

As a little girl, I loved the old swashbuckling tales of adventure and romance. Robin Hood, Zorro, The Black Arrow…Watching The Black Arrow I learned what an annulment was. When the evil lord tried to force the rich heroine to marry him by kidnapping her relatives that seemed like the worst fate in the world! My mom explained it wouldn’t be a valid marriage because she wouldn’t enter of her free will.

The Church requires that people enter marriage “freely and with full consent.”

Those simple words “freely and with full consent” have a far deeper meaning than a forced wedding. Marriage is (among other things) a sexual and emotional relationship. To truly give yourself sexually and emotionally, you need to be sexually and emotionally free. Otherwise, instead of giving you wind up taking, and using instead of loving. While there aren’t many evil lords hanging around today, there are two sadly common enemies to a person’s sexual and emotional freedom: lust and fear.

It’s very true that if you cannot say no, your yes is incomplete.

If you cannot deny yourself sexual pleasure, lust will color your perspective when approaching a potential spouse, and you marry the pleasure instead of the person. If you are terrified of being alone, fear will cling to any reasonable prospect that comes along, and you marry the relationship instead of the person. Because you cannot say “no,” you are not free to give full consent.

To be free does not require being free from temptation. You may struggle with thoughts or have moments of panic. To be free, those feelings must not control you. You should have strong, healthy sexual desires and you will be tempted. But you need the freedom and humility that can run away from the near occasion of sin and avoid illicit behavior. You should have the emotional health to form deep attachments that may break your heart. But you need the freedom and trust that can walk away from a relationship that isn’t right and accept living a single life with God.

Before you marry someone, you need to make sure you are in love with this unique, individual person, not with the pleasure or the relationship. When you do truly love the person, to build a healthy relationship you need the freedom to give yourself completely. So you need the ability to deny yourself sexual pleasure or the security of a relationship. If you sincerely strive for Christ, you will eventually reach the reliance on Him for strength and comfort that will break the grip of lust. If you truly seek God’s will, you will learn to trust Him and fear will lose its stranglehold. In three years, you don’t want to reach this freedom and peace, look at your spouse, and go “What was I thinking? We aren’t best friends. We don’t have a healthy relationship. Why didn’t I wait?”

Lust or fear has hurt you ENOUGH. Don’t be impatient and give them the chance to influence the decision or destroy the relationship that will hurt you or bless you for the rest of your life.

If you are dating someone addicted to lust or dominated by fear, step back. Tell your friend you’re seriously concerned that this will prevent your chance for a healthy relationship. This person may be “the one,” but you can take a break while they concentrate on improving their relationship with God first. If they won’t, you can’t move forward.

You will be called hard, self-righteous, and told to be more understanding because “they can’t help themselves.” You aren’t claiming to be God and judging the personal culpability of anyone. But if the poor people really can’t help themselves—that’s actually the problem! Because it means they aren’t free. You cannot ask someone to enter marriage when they are not free.

Pray for guidance, trust your gut, and never move forward in a relationship if both of you cannot do so with purity and peace. It will hurt, but in the words of one guy to the girl who had broken things off between them many years before: “Thank God you were such a sensible young woman!”

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ENGAGED? Check out Emily Wilson’s video course for brides-to-be!

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Sarah Karlyn Larue is a 26-year-old author of eight books, who loves her Faith and loves writing and is happiest when putting them together. Her latest series, That They Might Have Love,  is for all Catholic young women who want to seek God first in their love lives and find greater love and joy when they are single, dating, and married.

 

Filed Under: Dating, Engagement

June 7, 2021 By Sarah Larue

3 Things Every Guy Should Know About Porn

When a guy tells me he’s looking at porn, I don’t love him any less. In a way, I feel compassion toward him, because no guy who looks at porn loves himself, and I wish I could make up for that. I don’t think any less of him either, because I don’t know every circumstance so I can’t judge him. What I do feel is worried about him. I’ve known enough guys hooked on porn to know how it will affect him and damage his relationships. If you think pornography won’t destroy your chances with a girl listen to a girl’s side of the story.

The way you look at your girlfriend will turn her off.

There are two ways a man can look at a woman with interest. The first is pure desire. Her beauty leaves him breathless and she likes it! And she feels safe, because he is seeing all of her. She’s still there. Her beauty has attracted him to her as a person. When a man looks at a woman this way, the thought of marriage and arousing her husband with her beauty is incredibly exciting to her. She anticipates unveiling and giving her gift of self on their honeymoon with sheer delight.

The second way, of course, is lust. The best way I can describe it is that the girl feels like she’s not there. It’s not about him and her with the chemistry between them, it’s about him and sex, and she’s his latest pleasure provider. She feels completely left out. Instead of happy and excited, she’s disappointed and restless. The thought of undressing before him makes her nauseated. To do anything physical with him she feels like she would have to separate herself from her body and she hates that. Lust turns a girl off faster than anything else.

But pornography trains you to look at women with lust. When a guy watches porn eventually he starts looking at me that way and it kills any attraction I feel for him. Even if I really like him I just want him to go away. On the contrary, when I’m with men who don’t view porn I feel safe and free. They won’t look at me lustfully because they see all of me all the time. I don’t have to protect my beauty from their lust.

You want to attract your girlfriend. You want the ability to arouse your wife. You want your girl to feel safe and cherished by you. Pornography destroys all of that.

You won’t handle the word “no” like a man.

Pornography trains your brain to never accept the word “no” from a woman. Every day thousands of women are at your fingertips, apparently ready to throw their dignity and their souls in the trash to satisfy your every whim. So when a real flesh and blood girl tells you “no” about anything—physical or otherwise—you are highly affronted! She resisted you? Told you no? Disagreed with you? Contradicted you? Turned you down? How could she! Who does she think she is? You’ll get her to change her mind!

NOTHING makes a woman respect and admire a man more than his ability to accept the word “no” and sacrifice his will for the sake of another. That takes genuine strength and every woman wants a man strong enough to love her sacrificially. Manipulating, pouting, guilt-tripping, pity parties, and drama when you don’t get your way leaves her disgusted. She may make excuses for you, and she’ll find herself with her stomach in knots, apologizing profusely, and begging you to understand every time she dares cross your will—until she thinks “Why am I apologizing? He’s self-absorbed!”

There’s little chance for you once she feels this way.

Your negativity will pull your girlfriend down.

The Church has always taught that “sin darkens the intellect,” and modern scientific studies show how pornography sabotages your mental health and fosters depression. Chronic impatience and excessive negativity are unavoidable side effects of watching the most violent and degrading industry in the world. No girl can become emotionally involved with you without getting pulled into your depression. To you, your negative attitude about life, in particular about women, seems normal, but to her the constant stream of criticism and contempt is incredibly draining. She soon realizes she’s a much happier person without you than with you. She may hang around trying to cheer you up, but that quickly backfires.

If you view porn and she does not, her relationship with God will be better. She will have peace you do not. She will have joy you do not. She will have profound respect for herself and others that you do not. At first, this will attract you, but eventually, it will make you resentful. Because without intending to, she’s showing you up. She is more emotionally stable, has more self-control and a better self-image and image of God. And since those who view porn already despise themselves, your insecurity makes you twice as defensive. You grow angry that “she’s always ahead of you” and start putting her down.

The girl feels devastated. The very things you used to love about her now seem to make you hate her. She feels like she’ll either have to lose her peace and joy and self-respect or lose you. If she chooses the former neither of you will be happy.

So often I’ve watched a guy go to pieces or watched his relationships fall apart and wished so badly that I could show his younger, pre-porn self what it would do to him. Sadly I can’t, but maybe I can encourage you to avoid pornography like the plague. If you’re already viewing it, go to your parents or another mentor you trust. Go to priests and counselors. Pray, fast, and revolve your life around confession, Communion, and adoration. Break away from impure crowds. Get the internet off your phone and far away from you whenever you’re alone. Do whatever it takes. Your happiness and winning the love of a beautiful woman is worth it.

[For help breaking free from porn, check out FORGED!]

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Sarah Karlyn Larue is a 27-year-old author of eight books, who loves her Faith and loves writing and is happiest when putting them together. Her latest series, That They Might Have Love, is for all Catholic young women who want to seek God first in their love lives and find greater love and joy when they are single, dating, and married.

Filed Under: Breaking Free, Effects of Porn, Porn and Relationships, Porn, etc.

June 21, 2020 By Sarah Larue

3 cose che ogni ragazzo dovrebbe sapere sul porno

Quando un ragazzo mi dice che sta guardando del porno, non lo amo di meno.  In un certo senso, provo compassione per lui, perché nessun ragazzo che guarda il porno ama se stesso, e vorrei poter rimediare a tutto ciò .  E nemmeno  lo stimo di meno, perché non conosco tutte le circostanze per cui guarda il porno, quindi non posso giudicarlo.  Quello che sento è essere preoccupato per lui.  Conosco abbastanza bene ragazzi appassionati di porno da sapere come questa pratica li influenzerà e li danneggerà nelle relazioni.  Se pensi che la pornografia non distrugga le tue possibilità di relazione con una ragazza, ascolta la versione femminile della storia.

 Il modo in cui guardi la tua ragazza la mortificherà .

 Ci sono due modi in cui un uomo può guardare una donna con interesse.  Il primo è puro desiderio.  La sua bellezza lo lascia senza fiato e le piace!  E lei si sente al sicuro, perché lui la vede completamente e lei è presente davanti a lui.  La sua bellezza lo ha attratto a lei come persona.  Quando un uomo guarda una donna in questo modo, il pensiero del matrimonio e dell’eccitazione del marito con la sua bellezza è incredibilmente eccitante per lei.  Prevede di svelare e dare il suo dono di sé durante la luna di miele con pura gioia.

 Il secondo modo, ovviamente, è la lussuria.  Il modo migliore in cui posso descriverlo è che la ragazza si sente come se non fosse lì.  Non si tratta di lui e lei o dell’attrazione  chimica tra loro, riguarda piuttosto lui e il sesso, e lei è la sua ultima fonte di piacere.  E così lei sI sente completamente esclusa.  La ragazza, Invece di essere felice ed eccitata, sarà delusa e irrequieta.  Il pensiero di spogliarsi davanti a lui le fa venire la nausea.  Per fare qualcosa di fisico con lui si sente come se dovesse separarsi dal suo corpo e lo odia.  La lussuria spegne una ragazza più velocemente di qualsiasi altra cosa.

 Ma la pornografia ti insegna a guardare le donne con lussuria.  Quando un ragazzo guarda un porno alla fine inizia a guardarmi in quel modo e uccide qualsiasi attrazione che provo per lui.  Anche se mi piace davvero, voglio solo che se ne vada.  Al contrario, quando sono con uomini che non guardano il porno mi sento al sicura e libera.  Non mi guarderanno con lussuria perché mi vedono sempre nella mia completezza.  Non devo proteggere la mia bellezza dalla loro lussuria.

Vuoi attirare la tua ragazza.  Vuoi la capacità di suscitare tua moglie.  Vuoi che la tua ragazza si senta al sicuro e amata da te. Ebbene sappi che la pornografia distrugge tutto questo.

 Non gestirai la parola “no” come un uomo.

 La pornografia allena il tuo cervello a non accettare mai la parola “no” da una donna.  Ogni giorno migliaia di donne sono a tua disposizione, apparentemente pronte a buttare la loro dignità e la loro anima nella spazzatura per soddisfare ogni tuo capriccio.  Quindi, quando una vera ragazza in carne e ossa ti dice “no” su qualsiasi cosa, fisica o meno, sei molto offeso!  Ti ha resistito?  Ti ha detto di no? Lei è in disaccordo con te?  Ti ha contraddetto?  Ti ha rifiutato?  Come osa farlo? Chi pensa di essere?  Tu le farai cambiare idea!

NIENTE fa rispettare e ammirare un uomo più della sua capacità di accettare la parola “no” e sacrificare la sua volontà per il bene di un altra persona. Ciò richiede una forza genuina e ogni donna vuole un uomo abbastanza forte da amarla in modo sacrificale.  Manipolare, mettere il broncio, inciampare nel senso di colpa, farle pietà e drammi quando non si ottiene la sua strada la lascia disgustata.  Potrebbe trovare delle scuse per te, e si ritroverà con lo stomaco in subbuglio, a scusarsi profusamente e a implorarti di capire ogni volta che osa attraversare la tua volontà, finché non penserà “Perché mi sto scusando?  Tutto ciò è da egocentrici!»

 Ci sono poche possibilità per te una volta che si sente in questo modo.

 La tua negatività demoralizzerà  la tua ragazza

 La Chiesa ha sempre insegnato che “il peccato oscura l’intelletto” e studi scientifici moderni mostrano come la pornografia saboti la tua salute mentale e favorisca la depressione.  L’impazienza cronica e l’eccessiva negatività sono effetti collaterali inevitabili del guardare l’industria più violenta e degradante del mondo.  Nessuna ragazza può essere coinvolta emotivamente con te senza essere trascinata nella tua depressione.  Per te, il tuo atteggiamento negativo sulla vita, in particolare sulle donne, sembra normale, ma per lei il flusso costante di critiche e disprezzo è incredibilmente drenante.  Si rende presto conto che è una persona molto più felice senza di te che con te.  Potrebbe rimanere in giro cercando di tirarti su il morale, ma questo si ritorce rapidamente contro.

 Se guardi il porno e lei no, la sua relazione con Dio sarà migliore della tua. Lei avrà pace tu no.  Lei avrà gioia tu no.  Lei avrà un profondo rispetto per se stessa e per gli altri che tu non hai.  All’inizio, questo ti attirerà, ma alla fine ti farà risentire perché senza volerlo, ti sta mostrando come ci si comporta . Lei sarà più stabile emotivamente, con più autocontrollo e una migliore immagine di sé e di Dio.  E poiché coloro che guardano il porno già si disprezzano, la tua insicurezza raddoppierà e ti porterà ad essere  ancora di più sulla difensiva.  Ti arrabbi perché la tua amata “è sempre davanti a te” e così inizi a svilirla.

 La ragazza si sente devastata.  Le stesse cose che amavi di lei ora sembrano fartela odiare.  Lei sente che dovrà perdere la pace, la gioia e il rispetto di sé o perdere te.  Se lei sceglie il primo nessuno di voi sarà felice.

 Così spesso ho visto un ragazzo andare in frantumi oppure delle relazioni andare in pezzi e ho desiderato così tanto poter mostrare al suo io più giovane e pre-porno cosa gli avrebbe fatto.  Purtroppo non posso portarti indietro nel tempo, ma forse posso incoraggiarti a evitare la pornografia come la peste.  Se la stai già visualizzando, vai dai tuoi genitori o da un altro mentore di cui ti fidi.  Vai da sacerdoti e consiglieri.  Prega, digiuna e ruota la tua vita intorno alla confessione, alla comunione e all’adorazione.  Allontanati dalle folle impure.  Scollega Internet dal telefono e allontanati da te ogni volta che sei solo.  Fa tutto ciò che serve.  Ne vale la pena ! Tutto questo serve alla tua felicità e per conquistare l’amore di una bella donna.

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Sarah Karlyn Larue è una ventisettenne autrice di otto libri, che ama la sua fede e ama scrivere ed è più felice quando riesce a coniugare insieme le 2 cose.  La sua ultima serie, That They Might Have Love, è per tutte le giovani donne cattoliche che vogliono cercare Dio prima di tutto nelle loro vite amorose e trovare un amore e una gioia maggiori quando sono single, quando frequentano un ragazzo e quando  sono sposate.

Filed Under: Italiano

June 5, 2020 By Sarah Larue

Open Your Eyes (Part 2)

We were in the library looking at a photograph book of the beautiful countryside in France. Then we turned to a picture with a somewhat immodestly clad female dancer.

“These French!” my date said. “Who wants to see that?” He immediately turned the page.

I just smiled. On the inside I was throwing confetti. Yes! I thought. He gets it!

Two weeks later he showed me a movie with another female “dancer” with far less clothes on. Okay! I corrected myself. He doesn’t get it.

I was a little nervous talking to him about my standards for fear of sounding holier-than-thou or making him feel bad. I shouldn’t have been worried about either.

“No one does that!” he laughed when I mentioned fast-forwarding, looking away or when bad enough turning it off or walking out. My idealism was nice, he continued, but I needed to get out of my comfortable little girl’s world and live in the real one.

I had had this conversation with guys before. I could have told him his stance was not comfortable for me at all. I would have loved to say you’re right, it’s not important. But I couldn’t.

Years before, modesty was hard for me, until I realized modesty was not a practice just in response to evil but in respect for what is holy—male and female sexuality. The word “holy” literally means “set apart.” Once I viewed even the sight of my female figure as priceless, modesty becomes easy.

In my efforts to understand modesty, I had gone to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. In paragraph 2521 it says: “Purity requires modesty; it is an integral part of temperance. Modesty protects the intimate center of the person. It means refusing to unveil what should remain hidden.”

Nowhere does it even imply that watching an otherwise great movie excuses us from “refusing to unveil what should remain hidden,” what is intimate in a person.

If my sexuality is such a treasure that even the sight of it is holy, then so is everyone else’s sexuality. If I respect my value enough to refuse to unveil before another person’s eyes what should remain hidden in my body—then “love thy neighbor as thyself” requires that I respect another person’s value enough to refuse to unveil before my eyes what should remain hidden in their body.

Whether it causes lustful thoughts or not, since this does not belong to me, I have no right to see it. I can control what I watch, and I should respect every actor and actress as much as I respect myself.

Otherwise I’d be saying “I’m a good Catholic, so I will respect myself with the veil of modesty. But you—look how you’re living! I don’t have to respect you with the veil of modesty.”  How self-righteous and unloving is that? The value of a person is unconditional, so they deserve unconditional respect. Catholics must give people more respect than they give themselves because we know they are worth it.

Practicing modesty to this extent is not living in a bubble away from “the real world.”  This is giving every human being the respect God’s image deserves and it is living modesty to its fullness.

I don’t think God will be disappointed if I watch less movies than my peers. But it would hurt God’s heart if I acted like a four-year-old pointing at my siblings with: “They started it! They did it first! It would be like telling Him: Father, my brothers and sisters in Hollywood didn’t know or ignored the respect their bodies deserve. But I knew. And I didn’t turn off that TV. I didn’t walk out of that theater. Because they didn’t put a veil between their bodies and my eyes—I didn’t bother to either.”

“…every obscenity in the written word and every form of indecency on the stage and screen, should be condemned publicly and unanimously by all those who have at heart the advance of civilization and the safeguarding of the outstanding values of the human spirit. It is quite absurd to defend this kind of depravity in the name of art or of culture.”—Pope Saint Paul VI

Let God open your eyes to human sexuality—something so sacred even the sight is “set apart”—   something “holy, to be unveiled only in covenant love.”

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Sarah Karlyn Larue is a 25-year-old author of eight books, who loves her   Faith and loves writing and is happiest when putting them together. Her latest series, That They Might Have Love is for all Catholic young women who want to seek God first in their love lives and find greater love and joy when they are single, dating, and married.

Filed Under: Dating, Modesty

June 4, 2020 By Sarah Larue

Open Your Eyes (Part 1)

I was fourteen, unpacking some brand-new shirts I had ordered, and trying them on my brand-new figure. My mom was there with me and our dialogue went something like this:

Me: “Oh wow! I never looked this good before!”

My Mom: “Um… I think those shirts need to go back.”

Me: “What?! No! Why?”

My Mom: “You don’t want to put thoughts about you in a boy’s head, do you?”

Me: “That’s not fair! Boys are stupid! Why can’t they think the way we do???”

Despite my protests, my totally amazing mom sent the shirts back. She consoled me with: “When you marry a great man and you’re alone, you can dress as fun as you want for him.” That calmed my teenage drama somewhat. After all, he was the guy I wanted to impress. But I also remember thinking “That has to wait for marriage too?”

As a teenager having to dress modestly was annoying to me because it didn’t seem fair that how I dressed was subject to what men could see without being tempted—until I realized it wasn’t just about lust. Modesty is not put into practice just in response to something evil like lust but out of respect for something holy like my whole body and soul.

It can be tempting for women to look at our body, feel shame, and think: “This body of mine can tempt a man to sin, to objectify, to lust, my female figure can lead to evil, so I must keep it covered.” No!

Look at your body and remember: “This body is sacred. This is the image of God, the image of self-giving love. God created my female physique for the incredible, awe-inspiring purpose of union with my beloved and the pro-creation, development and nourishment of the image of God! He called me “very good” and because a woman’s body is so profoundly good no man has the right to even see the fullness of female sexuality without permission from God Himself. My feminine attributes are too sacred, too important, and too beautiful for any man to gaze upon except the one with whom I will exchange this gift of self… and only when God Himself has given us to each other.”

When you dress modestly it doesn’t mean you have to be drab or unattractive. You should dress in a beautiful way for the same reason you dress modestly—not to be obsessed over your looks nor to attract attention—but out of respect for your body’s value.

While helping men control their thoughts is a good end of our decision to practice modesty, the deeper motivation should come from recognizing that immodesty is first and foremost a sin against your own body.

Don’t advertise what is not for sale. Don’t carelessly leave exposed as “not important” what should cost a man a lifetime of devotion to obtain. It is not enough for a man to not lust after your female sexuality. He also has to cherish your female sexuality as a treasure of priceless value.

The veil of modesty encourages a man to respect that value. Modesty has been called an “invitation to reverence.” It invites men to properly appreciate how much you’re worth as a woman. If he runs from the invitation, you run from him. If he does not think a woman’s body is sacred enough to deserve the veil of modesty, he will not properly appreciate you in marriage. When a man accepts the veil of modesty, it’s because he can see clearly how beautiful you are.

St. Pope John Paul II explains that in the innocence of Eden Adam and Eve saw the other one’s naked body as an invitation to love that person. Modesty pays the respect and reverence the human body is worth. When you have trained yourself with reverence to recognize that immeasurable worth, then the gift of self can be given and received with nothing but joy and gratitude. When you have this reverence in the commitment of marriage to love the entirety of this person forever, the unveiling of this gift becomes an invitation to love.

There is only one man you will ever invite to love you as one with himself. Your honeymoon is a private party with one most exclusive guest. It’s a private invitation.

“That which is veiled is holy, to be unveiled only in covenant love.” — Scott Hahn, Signs of Life

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Sarah Karlyn Larue is a 25-year-old author of eight books, who loves her   Faith and loves writing and is happiest when putting them together. Her latest series, That They Might Have Love is for all Catholic young women who want to seek God first in their love lives and find greater love and joy when they are single, dating, and married.

Filed Under: Dating, Modesty

January 7, 2020 By Sarah Larue

When his past isn’t so perfect

Suppose you meet an amazing man. He’s devout, mature, your best friend, you’re crazy about each other—but he wasn’t always like this. Like many deceived young people, he wasn’t always pure.

As with any guy, make sure his chaste lifestyle is the real thing. If he isn’t faithful to you with his heart, his mind, his body, or his eyes, he isn’t ready for marriage. The past should not make any difference to your relationship, but where he is today makes all the difference in the world. Only a man passionately in love with and devoted to purity is capable of being passionately in love with and devoted to you.

So time proves him to be pure and his love true, but when you love someone so much—how do your emotions handle his past?

The first thing to remember is Psalm 51:3,6: “Have mercy on me, O God… Against You only have I sinned, and done what is evil in Your sight.”

If he is a Catholic gentleman, he has been to Confession countless times since his last sexual sin. In Confession, God erased that sin. It no longer exists. In Confession, God healed and restored your beloved. The man who walked out of that confessional is not the same one who committed that sin.

Excuse me? Forgive you for what? What are you talking about?

Now if a guy wants to hear “I forgive you,” say so, of course. However, your first thought should not be for your own pain but for his. Love always thinks first of the one you love. What should bother you the most are the garbage and its effects he’s had to overcome, and that he missed having the best single years. He’s the one who got cheated and ripped off.

Of course it will hurt you. Be patient and gentle with yourself as you work through it. We aren’t God, we can’t “forgive and forget” perfectly. But we can choose to put it out of our mind as best we can. Allow no morbid or jealous curiosity. Honesty is necessary, but it should be brief and to the point. Going into details will only make it harder on our imagination later.

It may seem impossible not to fret but remember: they were not “other girls”—meaning, they cannot be compared to you. It may have been sex, but it was never making love. Breaking love is more accurate. To you he now gives love when he dies to self and stays pure with you, because your happiness, your ultimate good means more to him than anything else.

No one wants to be compared to other people in their sex life. However, if you marry a man who genuinely loves you that won’t happen, because again they are not comparable. When you love a person the pleasure does not come from performance but from nearness to the beloved. You will enjoy it and have fun simply because you are together!!! Your skill has nothing to do with his enjoyment. Your happiness is what makes him happy. The goal of love is not getting but giving. A gentleman who loves you is not focused on reaching perfection but on initiating intimacy. The simple fact that it is you is what gives him joy.

Also, the wedding night is one night. It is not the pinnacle, it is the beginning. The longer you are married the more natural and easy it becomes and the more you learn about each other. As time goes by the more you love each other, and so the better it gets, the more fun it gets, the more exciting it gets! Every happily married couple soon reaches a level of intimacy, satisfaction, and enjoyment temporary partners cannot even comprehend.

Those who turn to God lack for nothing. You have every reason to be furious with the enemy who came to rob, kill and destroy. But you can also laugh at him because God gave back to you what he tried to destroy. On your wedding night you and your beloved, for the first time, make love by consummating your marriage—because you love each other, totally, completely, and forever.

(For more on this, check out the video: “My Partner’s Sexual Past Haunts Me . . . What Can I Do?” )

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Sarah Karlyn Larue is a 25-year-old author of eight books, who loves her Faith and loves writing and is happiest when putting them together. Her latest series, That They Might Have Love is for all Catholic young women who want to seek God first in the love lives and find greater love and joy, when they are single, dating, and married.

 

 

 

Filed Under: Relationships, Starting Over

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