You even used the plural. There’s a couple of me, I guess.
You’re missing the difference between the discussion of a subject and obsession. Just because I don’t agree with whatever you say just because you consider yourself to be older, wiser and whatnot, doesn’t make it obsession - especially if I try to explain it and you react with ad hominems. If you can’t handle a discussion of whether something is right or wrong without looking for obsessions and trying to demean people who talk to you, perhaps you shouldn’t participate.
Great parenting there, not talking to kids about sex. Sex ed is not a self-taught course. If you insist on discussing that subject, children need to be able to burn their fingers but leaving them to figure things out on their own isn’t exactly the best idea of bringing them up.
You made this comment in response to this:
You have no cause to question my parenting, or how you gather that the above demonstrates “not talking to kids about sex”.
You don’t give them privacy!! What do you say, oh sorry, you two finish up, I’ll talk to you later!!
You’d give that lecture to an 18 year old?
Yes! Sin does not have an age limit!!
Actually, its not really. Its an easily predictable anecdote on this thread, and statistically insignificant as all anecdotes are. Swapping counter-anecdotes would also be pointless, so I decline to do that. My point remains: the vast majority of Catholic parents would not tie themselves in knots if they saw their child kissing a date. “Kissing”, is the scope of this thread. Try to keep that in mind and in perspective.
Thanks for responding. Would you tell a 45 year old relative something similar? I understand that its not a teen involved, but if its a sin, would he or she get an age-appropriate lecture?
no,** passionate kissing **is the “scope” of this thread and it should only be done between a married couple, regardless of age.
yup!! Would you like my brother’s number so you can hear what I told him about sleeping with his girlfriend? He’s 51…again a sin is a sin, no matter the age.
I see. Thanks.
I’m really not interested but I believe you if you say you did. The scope of this thread is “passionate kissing” so your anecdote is out of bounds.
no it’s not, you asked if I would say something to an adult relative for something similar, I answered your question. Yes I would!
I didn’t think any equated two adults kissing (passionately) with two adults having sex. Thanks for the clarification of your position.
well seeing as one tends to lead to the other, I thought you would figure it out
Is it your position that by actively discouraging unmarried adults from passionate kissing you are preventing sexual intercourse?well seeing as one tends to lead to the other, I thought you would figure it out
That’s a common sense view.
I don’t see any need for an 18 year old kissing their boyfriend, what good is going to come of it. Even if it doesn’t go any further than kissing, they are still enjoying something that belongs in marriage. The “comeback” I had was for a teenager living in my house, therefore probably under the age of 18. I have every right to enforce rules in our home and they will be told of these rules far in advance. It won’t be something I spring on them. It would not be an attempt to break up a relationship. It would be to enforce the rules we have and to teach them right from wrong, again…my job as a parent.