Hello everyone, this is Love Life with Matthew Hussie. You know, we've all been hurt in relationships.

If we're not careful, we can end up shutting ourselves off completely to protect ourselves from more pain.

But that cheats us out of opportunities to find the love we really deserve.

So what should we do instead?

I want to come back to this at the end of the show.

But first, let's get into today's episode.

Look, are you ready to get serious? Talk about something a little sensitive.

It's going to offend a few people. Are you ready? I'm ready.

We did a radio show recently about what you should say to the guy who asks how many people have you slept with.

And in answering this question, I gave various answers to which in the comments people responded.

And one of the comments that we got on the show was, well, what if I'm a virgin?

And in fact, for many of these people, it came in two parts.

The first thing they said is, well, what do I tell him if I'm a virgin?

And the second part was a more abstract question of, well, what do I do?

I'm a virgin. I've been saving myself for the right person, but I'm worried and it's kind of create the stigma

and I'm worried about telling guys about it and so on.

So I'm going to answer this in two parts. First, dealing with how do you actually tell a guy you're a virgin?

Because that seems to be something a lot of people are worried about.

And secondly, just the state generally of being a virgin. Let's talk about that.

So first part, here's my rule with anything that you think has the potential to create a reaction in somebody else for better or worse.

Don't wear it as baggage when you tell them.

If you say to someone, I just really, I don't know, I just didn't know how to tell you this, but I'm a virgin.

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