Character

Abstinence can help you develop your character

• What qualities can abstinence help you acquire?
  • Self-Control
  • Self-Discipline
  • Selflessness
  • Perseverance
  • Patience
  • Commitment

Goals

These qualities will help you build happy and healthy relationships, but they will also help you in other areas of your life. They will help you reach your life goals and fulfill your dreams.

• College anyone?
  • Abstinence → more focus on school and studies → academic achievement → college
    
    
• Want to get a great job?
  • College → job → $$
    
    
• Abstinence will help you develop the characteristics that will make achieving these goals easier.
  
  

So yes, abstinence will help you to avoid the consequences that may put your dreams at risk, but it will also help you reach the future you desire.

• Enjoy family relationships¹
  
• Strong marriages^{2 3 4}
  
• Happiness⁵
  
• Satisfaction with your sex life when  you are married⁶