[FourPeas]

I think you're reading too much into the article. He said the woman he was dating for six months wanted a committment. To me that means she wanted a ring or the promise of one. I see nothing wrong with him wanting to know her longer than six months before making a committment.

Yes, women expect men to show a sexual interest. The article never said he had no sexual interest, nor that he didn't express affection or love, just that he did not sleep with his girlfriends.

As a woman, I'd be thrilled with a man who made that choice. And, yes, I'd still be thrilled six months later even if I didn't have a ring. I applaud his decision and based on many of the comments on this thread, I'd say it's obvious why he's "still" not married at 33. Even FreeRepublic has many women not worthy of him.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Perhaps he belongs to a different era.

[hellinahandcart]

Why would he date her for six months if he knew it would go nowhere?

If he's not in love by then, he ain't never gonna be.

Don't get me wrong, you could know somebody for years and years BEFORE you fall in love with them, but dating is different because it's courtship. It does raise expectations. At the very least, it raises questions. And she had every right to the answers even earlier.

Even FreeRepublic has many women not worthy of him.

Personally I think I'm too good for the little pompous ass (as well as too old, thank God). I'd never treat a man the way he treated her.

[Mister Magoo]

Oh, come on. If a man doesn't want to have sex with you before marriage, he isn't going to want to have sex with you after marriage. I've known two guys who advocated celibacy for religious reasons through college and afterward, and both ultimately acknowledged they were homosexuals. If this guy was a heterosexual, believe me, he would have found a woman to marry.

[Age of Reason]

He said the woman he was dating for six months wanted a committment.

Or at least the compliment of being hit-on. LOL