Love is the feeling that you have for yourself and it does not include sex. I receive many letters each week from teenagers and the theme of the letter is: After we had sex, he won't talk to me. After we had sex, he left me for another girl. After we had sex, he told all his friends that I was no good. Well, the way to eliminate that is: Do not have sex with him. If he really LOVES you, then he will wait and he will want you to wait.

My idea of love is the love of going to your senior prom and having lots of fun. Love is the feeling that you have when you graduate from high school and enter college. Love is spending the summer traveling to new and unknown places with your friends. Love is how you perceive yourself and the love you have for you and your body. Once it is given to someone else and they abuse it or dishonor it then the love goes away and feelings of unhappiness feels your mind and soul.

So, learn the difference between love and sex, and when the time is right, and that wonderful, caring, compassionate person comes along that truly loves you, then consider giving yourself to them. Until then, love life, love your friends, parents, and siblings, and most of all, love yourself. When that is done, all else will fall in place when the time is right.