What is True Love Waits?

I've been wearing that silver ring around my finger since high school. It still means the same to me today as it did then. I never took the True Love Waits classes but the concept has been important to me since day one. I was never really ostracized for my choices until now, which I find ironic. For guys, it's a constant thing. Is it really possible not to have sex until marriage? Most either don't believe it or think the idea is quite ridiculous.

Just yesterday I was being questioned about my ring. Is it a wedding band, engagement ring, or what? When I describe to them what it means I am given stares, as if they are thinking "are you nuts?", "is that for real?" Then immediately people start making fun of the fact that my boyfriend has to "go somewhere else to get what he wants." I guess the idea of a man actually being abstinent is so trivial. Another person commented that it looks like a wedding ring, and why would you want people to think that? I replied and said I don't care what people think, it's not for anyone else but me.

Do I condemn those that don't choose to stay abstinent? No, so why must they condemn me for my own personal choices? It doesn't directly affect any of them.  After thinking about this for some time I thought, maybe it's because they aren't comfortable with their own choices. If you are so comfortable with how you live your life, why do you need to criticize others'? Or maybe it's just because it's a different idea and people don't know how to accept that. Well, whatever it is, I will continue to live life how I see fit. I couldn't care less what others think.