Intimate Relationships: What Do You Wish Your Parents Had Told You ?

The "Birds and the Bees." The "talk." Whatever we call it, somebody is supposed to tell us something before we get married so that we understand that intimate experience with our spouse. We need to know more than the "how to's" of body parts. In today's uncensored multi-media our children learn about the mechanics of sex before they get out of kindergarten.  But yet, we don't have the knowledge we need to form healthy, long lasting relationships. Simply telling teenagers "Just say no" to sex isn't giving them understanding of the emotional needs of a spouse. Who prepares us for the personal spiritual connection created by intimacy with another human being? If we understood things better, would we have made better choices? Even in religious communities, adults are still fumbling when it comes to preparation for that moment when "the two shall become one." Most men realistically were told nothing about a woman's body or her mind, other than what to say to get her to say "yes." Women know little or nothing about men's anatomy, and even less about their emotions. Why are we still so ignorant about each other despite all of this free information? What do you wish your parents had told you about relationships when you were a teenager so that you could have been better prepared as an adult to form a successful, fulfilling, long lasting relationship? What are you telling your sons and daughters?