The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love    Compare

Table of Contents/ List of Topics Covered:

Introduction
- Why We Waited
- Yes, The Wait Is (Sort of) About Sex
- Answer to the Important Questions

Chapter One: No Sex? You Can’t Be Serious
- Sex, Waiting, and Relationships
- The Problem with Sex
- Why We Chose to Be Celibate
- What The Wait Isn’t
- Things to Know About Being Celibate
- Signs from God
- Does It Really Have to Be Until Marriage?
- Blessings of Waiting
- Wise Waiting
- Celibacy Versus Abstinence
- The Energy to Change Everything
- Delayed Gratification and Marshmallows
- Being Selective Makes You More Desirable
- The Wait . . . and Career

Chapter Two: Getting What You Really Want (Hint: It Isn’t Sex)
- Becoming the Best Version of Yourself
- Before We Dated
- Wise Waiting
- How the Wait Improved Our Lives
- The Wait and . . . Finances
- Grabbing Hold of the Life You Want
- The Wait Reprograms Your Pleasure Software
- Lip Service
- It Puts You Back in Control
- It Pulls the Right People to You
- Other Key Reasons Why Waiting Is Worth It
- Know Your Triggers

Chapter Three: First Steps Down the Path to Authentic Love
- Make the Decision
- Seek Wise Counsel
- Let God Be Your Matchmaker
- What If the Other Person Is Waiting First?
- Give Up the Illusion of “The One”
- The Wait and . . . Weight
- The Stages of Celibacy
- Know That It Gets Easier
- Wise Waiting

Chapter Four: Lead Me Not into Temptation, I Can Find It Myself
- Remembering Why You Started
- The Lust Prayer
- The Wait and . . . Creativity
- What Temptation Looks Like
- Taking Care of Business
- Temptation Avoidance Tips
- Mind Your Triggers
- Prepare for Every Contingency
- Eyes on the Prize
- Thinking About Sex Less

Chapter Five: What Keeps Women from Waiting?
- Happily Ever After? Not So Much
- Women’s Disciplines
- For Women, Celibacy Is Control
- “If I Don’t Sleep with Him, I’ll Lose Him”
- How Not to Wait
- “There Are Only a Few Good Men Out There”
- Woman Versus Woman
- Who Is Your Husband?
- Fear Is a Failure of Faith
- The Wait and . . . Friendships
- Waiting Gives You Back Your Power
- How Waiting Gets You What You Want

Chapter Six: What Keeps Men from Waiting?
- The List
- The Cost
- Men’s Disciplines
- Walking, Talking Sex Drives
- What Are You Doing with Your Not-Tied-Downness
- “No” Before Bros
- Who Is Your Wife?
- The Wait and . . . Business
- Faith and The Waiting Man
- Attention Is the Currency of True Success
- Take Inventory
- Wise Waiting

Chapter Seven: Can I Date While I Wait?
- What Do You Deserve?
- It’s Confusing
- DUI: Dating Under Infatuation
- Type or Typo?
- The Jury Is Out
- You Know Not Because You Ask Not
- Beware of Your List
- Dipping Your Toe into the Dating Pool
- Steady at Your Center
- Going Deeper
- Telling Your Date About The Wait
- Wise Waiting

Chapter Eight: When Should I Commit?
- Live as You Before You Live as We
- If You’re Ready, Don’t Be Afraid to Move Ahead
- Breaking the Stalemate
- Reasons Not to Commit
- Learning . . . Every Date, Every Day
- Should You Live Like You’re Married When You’re Not?
- The Friends-and-Family Plan
- Passion Chemistry
- Popping the Question
- Marriage and Beyond
- The Blessings of Marriage

Chapter Nine: Don’t Give Up
- The Wait Always Works
- Beware of Pitfalls
- Plenty to Do in the Meantime
- Trust What You Can’t See
- Stay on God’s Timetable
- The Wait and . . . Self-Esteem
- Reflect and Review
- Fine-Tuning
- Final Thoughts

Acknowledgments

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