No Pain, No Gain

You can have the sunset love story in your life, but it will mean that you choose the pain that comes in package number two--the pure, slow burn. The pain here is caused by your own self control, which really feels much like self-denial. As you guard your heart and your body, you can expect to experience some pain. It is easier, short-term, to be the girl who throws caution to the wind and lets her heart and body become tangled into the moment. But if your great love story is fueled by the pain that is caused by the wise, head-defined choices in the beginning, it may come with a blissful, happily-ever-after ending. If the relationship does end? You will have no regrets because you have not given your heart or your body away. ( And there are still lots of clean pages upon which to keep writing your story. One broken relationship is not the end!)

Taken from And the Bride Wore White by Dannah Gresh