My Husband Thought I Was a Virgin When We Got Married. I'm Not So Sure.

'If I had had sex with them, then I was no longer a virgin. If I was no longer a virgin, then the man I was dating would not want to marry me. And I couldn’t handle that.' Read an excerpt from lyzl's new book Belabored:

On my sixteenth birthday, my father gave me a ring. It was Black Hills Gold. A yellow band with a heart made of flimsy pink and green gold leaves. This was my purity ring, the ring given to me to represent a pledge to safeguard my virginity. It was my commitment to abstinence and to God to keep myself pure until marriage. I hated it.As an '80s baby, my teen years were heavily influenced by the Christian counterculture of the '90s.

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