Here are some suggestions that I found helped me date and remain chaste: First, I made it known to my date that sexual intimacy was not an option when we planned our date.Since you are a member of Catholic Match, you already have a head-start on that, but it’s good to be sure that your date is aware of your desire to remain chaste.Whether your experience with married sex was good or bad, you still experienced the freedom to be sexually intimate with your spouse and that is something that can be difficult to step away from after divorce.Now I’ve read a lot of posts on the forum and I can see that so many of you are vehemently committed to living a chaste life and having chaste relationships. But society has stacked the odds against you and sexual intimacy is still one of the most common mistake people make after a divorce.

The following are three ways to do it successfully.1.

Dating after divorce brings the issue of sex right to the forefront of discussion: whether or not sex is OK, how much intimacy is too much, and really, why do you have to wait if you’re not a virgin anymore, anyway?

Divorced people get into dating with the best of intentions, but also with a serious handicap: You’re already used to giving yourself to your spouse and it is hard to tell your body that now things have to change.

‘Don’t worry, Hopeful Girl, you’ll meet someone soon – the divorcés are coming back onto the market every day! There’s something to look forward to.’ Divorce is a touchy subject for Christians.

‘Divorce, broken families and shattered dreams – and me picking through the carnage.