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They Saved Sex for Marriage

Three years, three fucks and a miracle

Mary Carter
3 min readFeb 1, 2025
Ben and Hannah — The protagonists of this true story

Hannah and Ben did everything “right” — stayed virgins until marriage, prayed together, followed every rule in the perfect Christian handbook. The result?

A virtually non-existent sex life, endless nights of frustration, and shame so deep they couldn’t even ask for help. Three years of marriage, three failed fucks, and a silent weight threatening to crush everything they’d built together.

Hannah, the pastor’s daughter who “never even smoked a cigarette,” learned the hard way that following the rules guarantees jack shit. The first night was a complete disaster — they couldn’t have sex. Fine, they thought, we have a lifetime ahead. But days turned into weeks, weeks into months, and sex remained a lost battle. Her body simply locked up, as if still chained by years of religious conditioning.

Ben, poor guy, showed superhuman patience. While other husbands would have told everything to fuck off, he stayed. Hannah, consumed by guilt, constantly offered him freedom: “If you want to leave, I understand.” Inside, she desperately prayed he’d stay. The fear of not being able to have children, of not being “woman enough”, of ruining everything, ate at her like a silent cancer.

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