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MJDorry
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This is going to be a long. I don’t know what I want to get out of posting it. Encouragement? Prayer? Advice? Just to vent my anxieties? I’m 28 and I feel like I’m 15.
I’ve only been dating my GF exclusively for about four months, but we’ve been seeing each other for six. For the first five months, we were good about not getting physically intimate. Then, back during the second week of June, we sinned and chose our sexual desires over our love of God and purity. It was one time and I did more than “pull out”; we stopped having intercourse well before I even reached a tipping point. But perhaps this was enough, as I am now reading that some men can carry residual sperm in their pre-ejaculate fluid.
My GF was supposed to get her period at the beginning of last week. As of today, she’s a week-and-a-half late. Granted, there are a couple of other factors that may be playing into this: she did start a new and intense workout regimen last month, and I suspect she wasn’t eating enough (she apparently has a habit and history of skipping meals). And she’s dealt with polycystic ovary syndrome-like symptoms since coming off of birth control a few years ago, with her cycle never quite being chartable, and other physical expressions of hormonal imbalance.
She says she’s been having a lot of clear discharge and only today had some brown. The former of which I’ve read can be an early sign of pregnancy; the latter being a sign of old blood—and in cases of potential pregnancy, a sign of implantation bleeding…
In the case that I do become a father, I don’t know how I’m going to pull everything together. I have a secure job, but I only gross $30K, and my old college bills bury me as it is. My GF doesn’t fare any better.
I’m a full-on doctrinal Catholic at heart, but I’ve never taken the plunge of confirmation and entry (mostly because I’m wary of liberal or poorly-developed RCIA programs). My GF is not Catholic, and although she states she’s open to Catholicism, she’s not confident she’ll ever agree with some of the most important doctrines. I want to marry in the Church, and I want to do it right with a Catholic woman, raising my children Catholic, but I also don’t want to abandon my GF or raise our child as two single parents if my GF won’t convert with me.
I’m just swirling in my head right now.
I’ve only been dating my GF exclusively for about four months, but we’ve been seeing each other for six. For the first five months, we were good about not getting physically intimate. Then, back during the second week of June, we sinned and chose our sexual desires over our love of God and purity. It was one time and I did more than “pull out”; we stopped having intercourse well before I even reached a tipping point. But perhaps this was enough, as I am now reading that some men can carry residual sperm in their pre-ejaculate fluid.
My GF was supposed to get her period at the beginning of last week. As of today, she’s a week-and-a-half late. Granted, there are a couple of other factors that may be playing into this: she did start a new and intense workout regimen last month, and I suspect she wasn’t eating enough (she apparently has a habit and history of skipping meals). And she’s dealt with polycystic ovary syndrome-like symptoms since coming off of birth control a few years ago, with her cycle never quite being chartable, and other physical expressions of hormonal imbalance.
She says she’s been having a lot of clear discharge and only today had some brown. The former of which I’ve read can be an early sign of pregnancy; the latter being a sign of old blood—and in cases of potential pregnancy, a sign of implantation bleeding…
In the case that I do become a father, I don’t know how I’m going to pull everything together. I have a secure job, but I only gross $30K, and my old college bills bury me as it is. My GF doesn’t fare any better.
I’m a full-on doctrinal Catholic at heart, but I’ve never taken the plunge of confirmation and entry (mostly because I’m wary of liberal or poorly-developed RCIA programs). My GF is not Catholic, and although she states she’s open to Catholicism, she’s not confident she’ll ever agree with some of the most important doctrines. I want to marry in the Church, and I want to do it right with a Catholic woman, raising my children Catholic, but I also don’t want to abandon my GF or raise our child as two single parents if my GF won’t convert with me.
I’m just swirling in my head right now.
