save myself for marriage

I am meeting a lot of guys now that I am in college, and am getting out. The other night I met this one guys, we both were interested in eachother, and just really enjoying eachother’s company. One thing led to another and yes we did start kissing, but after that he asked me randomly “what is my opinion on pre-marital sex?” in those exact words, and I point blank told him that I was waiting until marriage to have sex. Right after that he seemed to become less interested. I said to myself ‘was that just a polite gramatically correct way of asking if I would sleep with him tonight?” Lol. This just proves to me more that I made the right decision in waiting until marriage. I can just picutre some girl actually going to bed with him one day, and then crying because she doesn’t understand why he’s not interested in her anymore. I never want to be in that situation.

All my life I had my belief on “saving myself for marriage” I thought it was something that religious people did, and that was it. I wasn’t against, it just wasn’t a lifestyle that I wanted to lead. I was just going to wait until I was in love, and that would be it. It wasn’t until that I took a sociology class this past year that my whole world was turned upside down.
I am all about respect, if you respect me I shall give you the same courtesy and vice versa. That to me is the most important thing in the world to be polite and respectful to people.
We were talking about pre-marital sex in class one day, and I was paying attention but I had no intention of changing my belief about that whole situation…until my teacher said this. “Saving yourself for marriage is the most RESPECTFUL thing you can do for your future spouse” That completly changed my world. I never thought of it like that, and ever since I have just been paying close attention to our society and how loosly people use the word “love” and “devotion” I slowly realized that I didn’t want the baggage of possibly feeling used, or having my heart being broken even worse because I slept with someone I thought cared about me. Or worrying about disease or pregnancy. Despite all this I never really said the words “I’m saving myself” to anyone, I just wanted to make sure that I honestly and truely meant it before it was said.
I recently came to college, and this girl was talking about how she didn’t like her first experince and all that stuff, and all of a sudden I realized that I just had no desire to be in her position ever. We started to talk about how her b/f was coming at some point and they were going to rent a room on campus (yes you can do that where i am) and I said I would do that also, but I wouldnt have sex with him….she replied with a very surprised “REALLY?” and just then I knew I meant it, and I said it.
I couldn’t be happier with my decision. However I just hope I can find a man who, if not waiting himself, respects and accpets my decision.