Strider1002
For when I am weak, then I am strong.
How many previous sexual partners can a potential significant other have before it becomes too many for you? Someone on another CF subforum suggested that we all have a numerical limit. Like 1 might be okay, but 15 would be a deal breaker, or something along those lines.
This is a foreign way of thinking for me. Although I see 0 as ideal, and even reasonable for that matter, there doesn't seem to be a number beyond which a good match ceases to be a good match. Other factors are more important. For instance, how her motivations and past decisions influence her life today, her attitude, whether her actions would otherwise give me a reason to not trust her etc. I'm well aware that it's possible to live an honest life according to a different set of values, but it would be hard for me to get past a history of cheating. This isn't a numbers game for me. Dozens with honesty vs. 1 with cheating, and I'd prefer the woman who had dozens with honesty. Likewise, although I think 0 is ideal, waiting isn't enough to turn a Negative Nancy or someone with equally undesirable traits into one I'd want to spend the rest of my life with. So ultimately, the specific number is quite low on my list of things I look for. I'd like to think that it would neither make nor break the relationship in and of itself.
0 would be ideal. But I have learned that God renews everything, including trust. So, I don't expect my future wife will have A LOT of former partners, but I forgive her if she does.
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