Before marriage, love is blind, and sex is a blindfold.
All of us have blind spots and we also have blindfolds that we often put on ourselves. Sex before marriage is one of those because it blinds us to the realities of the relationship. It makes couples think they have more relational substance than they really do. Inside marriage, sex reaffirms an existing permanent commitment; outside of marriage it masks commitment and creates a pseudo-intimacy that appears to be solid but isn’t. The question is do we trust God enough to take our blindfolds off?