49-Year-Old Virgin

<p>I never asked to be a <strong>49-year-old virgin</strong>. I mean who would?</p><p>We live in a world that is obsessed with sex. We are inundated with sexual images from commercials and Super Bowl halftime shows to movies like <em>Fifty Shades of Gray</em>. Yet when I was sixteen I made a vow to remain a virgin until I married.</p><p>What I could not know was that this decision would require a 33-year commitment on my part. <strong>Although my dream was delayed I was not denied.</strong></p><p>This theme was present throughout my life. Through it all I learned that . . .</p><p class=ql-align-center><strong>God's timing is always better than mine</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>In this memoir Perez discusses dating decisions she made as a teen. Unlike the movie <em>The 40-Year Old Virgin </em>she committed to daring Christian habits when she took a vow of abstinence before marriage. In her memoir she shows how celibacy a love story of boundaries in relationships brings Christian joy for women and men too.</p>