A Condom for The Heart

I remember many years ago, reading an article about condoms. There was a big debate at the time as to whether condoms would slow down the sexual revolution and really have sex safer. There was a quote from a Catholic priest which I'll never forget. He said, "I'll believe in condoms when they come up with a condom for the heart."

We live in a time when condoms are thrown out into the crowd, telling you if you're going to have sex you simply have to protect yourself. But I have yet to find a condom for the heart. When I say heart, I'm talking about your deepest emotions, the way you look at yourself, and how you feel about the one you love.

No Protection for Regret and Broken Hearts?

I have talked to hundreds of people who cannot erase the regret and pain that has been brought on by having sex with their boyfriend, girlfriend or even a stranger. This is a pain that no condom can ever protect you from.

  • Ride a roller-coaster or go on a trip if you need thrill and excitement. [Lovers] come and go, but babies, STDs, and regret stay.

Everybody is looking for someone who will love them unconditionally. Sex alone will not fill that void. In fact, casual sex will just leave you empty, but wanting more, making the ache deeper and deeper. Julianne says it really well: Why have sex over a feeling that can come and then go. Sure, sex is fun and a thrill, but the heartache and worries are NOT WORTH IT!! Ride a roller-coaster or go on a trip if you need thrill and excitement. [Lovers] come and go, but babies, STDs, and regret stay.

No Protection for Being Used

Condoms can't protect you from confusing love for lust. Lucy commented about having sex for the first time at age 13, and the attachment she automatically felt for the guy. She said: When this happened, it was the biggest mistake of my life. I lost something I will never be able to get back. I was so madly in love with this guy, had such low confidence, and was willing to do anything to keep this guy in my life. Having sex was what he wanted, and all he wanted. We did not use a condom, and surprisingly, it was not my biggest regret. I was used, and then dropped. I am still not able to get over this guy. We don't talk anymore. He hates me. Sadly, I'd still do anything to be close with him again. I wasn't ready and now I'm so emotionally attached.

Tragically, Lucy still does not understand she is set up for more hurt if she goes back to this guy. Because, like all of us, she has not found a condom for her heart. She is playing with emotional unprotected sex.

Anthony admits that guys don't have a condom for their heart either: Me and my girlfriend were going out for about a year and a half when we had sex for the first time. Every time after that all she wanted was sex. I didn't want to but I thought I loved her so I gave in. When she thought she was pregnant, things went downhill. Good thing for us she wasn't. When we broke up she thought that I was using her for sex when I never really wanted to.

Condoms also cannot prevent you from feeling cheap. Mandi shares how she carries a lot of the heaviness and shame that came from having sex: I dated a guy who told me he loved me, and how wonderful things would be. He forced me to have sex and then broke up with me. I felt so ashamed for going out with him and didn't understand how he could do that. I felt like it was all my fault. My self-respect was lost. I felt like no guy would ever really love me.

No Protection for a Ruined Reputation

Condoms don't protect your reputation. When Tiffany was 16, she had already had sex with ten different guys. She painfully explains her situation: After the third guy I was really wanting to kill myself because all the guys in my town were calling me the town ho, but I just wanted to get pregnant so someone would love me. Well, I did get pregnant. But after the guy found out he beat me up, and, like he was trying to do, I had a miscarriage.

Too bad Tiffany didn't have a condom to protect her reputation, but there's no such thing.

No Heart Protection

All of these stories prove a point. Condoms only do what are they are designed to do and that is to help with birth control and protect from STDs. Sometimes they fail even doing that. But they are not designed to protect your heart from being broken with irresponsible and uncommitted sex. Until you find a partner who will stay committed to you for the rest of your life, you will always experience the pain and regret of a heart without a condom.

Please leave a comment if you have a similar story that can help others make wise choices. 

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8 comments on “A Condom for The Heart”

  1. How do you stay away from an "Option" relationship? I'm so weak and tired of falling back into the same pit. My relationship with God has decreased due to this issue and I want to be restored.

  2. Hi Luanne,
    You have written here on Dec 2016,
    I want to tell you that exactly on Dec 13 i met a man at the CDG airport Paris.
    I don't have sex with men too, and i had some years without having sex with someone. He was super attentive, very very intelligent, very very lovely man. Even now I can't understand what really happened.
    The sex was wonderful. Never have felt like that.
    For about one and a half month we were all time, night and day, talking by phone, or Whatsapp.
    Even on February, 14, he sent me a lot of ms and love until the 2 pm. And since then he started to talk less and less. We met on February 24, and on March 3, he wrote to me than he was breaking up.
    I was in shock, and I really thought to kill myself.
    My brain didn't work properly.
    I wrote to him everyday for around 3 weeks, and then started to think.
    On April 1, he wrote to me and asked to talk in person.
    At that moment i felt like in death.
    I didn't go, and it was my last dignity thing I did.
    So, now I feel a little better, but it is so much pain inside me.
    Thank you

  3. I met someone on EHarmoney. We talked for about a month, night and day on the phone. We seemed to click really well. He was super attentive and had a winning personality and I knew I could fall in love right away. We had so much in common. So, I went to visit him. There's a reason why I visited him and not visa versa. My place is way too small. Anyhow though, I fell in love with him. There's was chemistry everywhere. He convinced me that I was safe with him and he'd never hurt me. So we were physical, and to me it was like giving my soul out. I trusted him. I don't have sex with men I don't have strong feelings for. But, I tend to trust them when I think they are being honest. I get very caught up in the moment. The weekend appeared to go well, but after I left, He didn't seem quite as attentive and would make excuses as to why he couldn't call or text. And he seemed very down an depressed, telling me that a female friend of his tried to commit suicide, and oddly he has quite a few female friends that he meets online as well. I believe that they were just that, friends. However, he "said" he had a Buddah convention to go to the next weekend and would text me things like "I hope we can talk in the morning" but never called, (this is that "Next" weekend where he is now) sending texts of how hectic the weekend was, but not much of anything else. I felt suddenly that I was becoming a burden. Contacting me was not a priority on his list anymore.
    I just felt this strongly and I started to think negatively. I don't know what's really going on with him, but I do strongly sense that he is not in the same place I am in my heart. And I now wish I knew how to take my heart back. I'm heart broken, I know I will get over this, but the problem is, he keeps in touch with me. I sense that he does this with other women too. I'm not the only iron in the fire. I sense this because when I was with him that weekend, he sat on the phone in the morning, I heard his conversation and it sounded exactly like he was talking to me. Nothing was said intimately, but I felt as though he was talking to someone he hadn't met before and was planning to meet. That was what the conversation was about. Then, telling me later that he was planning this weekend convention with a "couple".OK, I just wish I knew how to ignore him. And if anyone has taken the time to read all of this, does this sound like "Me', or "Him"? Thanks.

    1. Sounds a lot like what I went through... in fact he also told me 'you are safe with me'. Unlike you I had known him for a long time but we got close all of a sudden after many years of knowing each other. Trust me when I say, leave and never look back. That is what I did. He's only keeping in touch because he views you as one of his many options. It's tough to accept this but the sooner you do, the sooner you will start getting on with your life. Sending love and prayers your way.

    2. Hi Luanne,
      You have written here on Dec 2016,
      I want to tell you that exactly on Dec 13 i met a man at the CDG airport Paris.
      I don't have sex with men too, and i had some years without having sex with someone. He was super attentive, very very intelligent, very very lovely man. Even now I can't understand what really happened.
      The sex was wonderful. Never have felt like that.
      For about one and a half month we were all time, night and day, talking by phone, or Whatsapp.
      Even on February, 14, he sent me a lot of ms and love until the 2 pm. And since then he started to talk less and less. We met on February 24, and on March 3, he wrote to me than he was breaking up.
      I was in shock, and I really thought to kill myself.
      My brain didn't work properly.
      I wrote to him everyday for around 3 weeks, and then started to think.
      On April 1, he wrote to me and asked to talk in person.
      At that moment i felt like in death.
      I didn't go, and it was my last dignity thing I did.
      So, now I feel a little better, but it is so much pain inside me.
      Thank you

  4. I thought I was in love with this guy.W ell,it started as a crush but it became more exciting when he started showing care.He bought me gifts, from pecking me to kissing and then touching me. it was happening so fast.Later I found out that he was using me to pay his debt because I was giving him money and he started having sex with me. He later dumped me now my heart is broken.

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