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Yep, I mentioned this in another comment - against the trend of the rest of my Liberty friends group (who all rushed to the altar during college or right after graduation), a friend of mine and her fiance waited to marry until a year after graduation. It was good that they did because he ended up coming out of the closet and they called …
Yep, I mentioned this in another comment - against the trend of the rest of my Liberty friends group (who all rushed to the altar during college or right after graduation), a friend of mine and her fiance waited to marry until a year after graduation. It was good that they did because he ended up coming out of the closet and they called off the wedding. It was so painful for them both because of the narrow evangelical mold placed upon them from the youth group-to-Liberty pipeline and being taught that gayness was a sin.
It is so true - as someone who has been happily married for almost eight years, it was a massive relief to get through all of the expectations of the teen years and twenties because of women's perceived value as a pure virgin and then good wife and mother. Men have expectations placed on them, too - they need to be the masculine head of the house monetarily and religiously. My evangelical friends were concerned that my husband didn't fit this mold.