True Love Starts with Friendship: Chastity, Self-Mastery, and the Freedom to Love

If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance someone in your life has told you that chastity is important. Maybe a parent, a priest, a youth group leader. And there’s an equally good chance you walked away thinking chastity was mostly about saying no. I get it. That’s the message most of us received. Chastity was the long list of don’ts before marriage–no sex, no touching, no going too far. One long “no.” ...

February 11, 2026 · 4 min · Katie Palitto