Hi! I've been in a serious, long term relationship with my Christian boyfriend for about two years now. We both feel that marriage is definitely something we're being called towards, however we're in college and would like to wait till we've gotten our degrees for financial reasons. While this is fine, by the time we've graduated, it'll have been 6 years that we've been together. I'm concerned about our temptations towards each other and how that might effect our relationship. While it seems fairly obvious that it's natural for a couple of long term and close emotional intimacy to feel attracted to each other, I'm worried that because we are not married it'll be a deep conviction, and something that is good and (dare I say it) rather essential for a relationship to be turned into a negative thing. I especially don't want that negative opinion of attraction or sexuality to carry over into our marriage and then turn painful for the both of us. Is there any scripture, any advice that you could give me? Is it really just best to haggle out the financial burden of being married in college for the sake of our purity and happiness?
