Sexual intercourse is a gift by which a married couple give themselves to each other completely and open themselves up to the gift of a child. All forms of sexual contact form a bond between two people. If you hug or hold hands with someone, you have made a physical connection. Your relationship is more personal than before. A kiss is yet more personal, and so on down the sexual contact line.
Sexual intercourse is the most intimate bond between two people.
Movies and television programs overflow with premarital sexual relationships. Often these relationships are treated as careless mistakes. Sometimes they are shown as loving relationships. Occasionally, a movie or program touches on the fact that emotional pain is also part of a premarital sexual relationship. Lack of trust, unequal feelings of love and commitment between partners and the pain of breaking up a sexually intimate relationship are what real people remember about premarital sexual relationships.