I Kissed Dating Goodbye

Author:Joshua Harris
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Relationships, Love & Romance, Religion, Christian Life, General, Christian Life - General, Family & Relationships, Man-woman relationships, Spirituality, Dating (Social customs), Dating (Social customs) - Religious aspects - Christianity, Spiritual Growth, Love & Marriage, Christian Theology
ISBN: 9781590521366
Publisher: Multnomah
Published: 2003-04-05T05:00:00+00:00

77With my limited understanding, I embarked on my new approach to friendships with girls. It didn't take long before I had a chance to test my ideas. I met Chelsea the summer before my senior year in high school. She was a fellow student at The Summit, a Christian leadership training camp held in a quaint but rickety turn-of-the-century hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Chelsea and I met on the stairs one day between classes. She was a pretty brunette from Kansas who radiated wholesomeness. A strong Christian from a good family, Chelsea was as American as apple pie--athletic and adventurous. It was definitely a case of "l" at first sight. Over the course of the camp we got to know each other, talking in the lunch line and playing tennis on sports days. We grew even closer when we and a group of students hiked fourteen miles to the top of Pikes Peak. During the trek, Chelsea told me about life in the small town where her dad practiced law. I told her about my life at home in Oregon. As we talked, I

just friends in a Jusr-Do-Ir world 125 felt elated to have found a girl whose company I could enjoy without all the trappings of being boyfriend and girlfriend.

Unfortunately, my desire for "just friendship" wasn't as strong as my old habits of edging toward romance with girls. I felt attracted to Chelsea, and instead of being content with friendship and keeping our interaction in the context of a group, I asked her out to lunch. She" accepted, and two days before camp ended, we rode the bus into downtown Colorado Springs. We spent the afternoon meandering through tourist traps full of knickknacks and cheap paintings. At a bead shop we made necklaces as reminders of each other.

This little date was Mistake Number One. In my opinion, going out to lunch isn't a big deal, but in this case it signaled my special interest in Chelsea, placed us in a romantically charged setting, and made us feel like a couple My instigation of this interaction pushed our relationship beyo: comd friendship.

But at the time, I was blind to all of this. In hct, I felt proud of myself. As far as I was concerned, Chelsea and I had been completely above reproach. Good grief! We hadn't so much as held hands! As "mature" high schoolers, we had

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