Someone is taking a vow of abstinence!
Drew Barrymore revealed that she doesn’t need sex because she feels physical intimacy doesn’t equal love.
In a new blog post, Barrymore explained that since splitting from her ex-husband Will Kopelman, the father of her two daughters, in 2016, she has not been able to have an intimate relationship.
“I have had the honor and a pleasure to actually work on myself and learn what parenting is, again something I was not exactly clear on growing up and I’ve had many learning curves thrown my way,” she wrote. “I’ve been intimidated. I’ve been triumphant. I’ve been asked to be educated in every way I can be.”
Barrymore, 47, said her divorce from Kopelman, 44, has made her cautious in her personal life, given that she’s trying to raise Olive, 10, and Frankie, 8, to be “empowered and to love themselves.”
“I am just in a completely different place in my life and maybe in the near future I will get into a relationship… but it simply hasn’t been my priority,” the talk show host wrote. “So I’m not a person who needs sex and has to go out there and engage with people on that level. I am someone who is deeply committed to fostering how young girls, my daughters, and myself as a woman, are supposed to function in this world!”
Barrymore says that even though she supports those who can find love again after a failed relationship, she needed to stay celibate to honor and mourn the loss of a nuclear family.
“I swore to myself, I would provide my daughters with love and help them find grace during trying to figure out what our new blended family would be,” Barrymore said.
Barrymore ended her post by making sure to let others know, “I don’t hate sex, but rather I’ve finally come to the epiphany that love and sex are simply not the same thing.”
“What’s wrong with me that six months doesn’t seem like a very long time?” Barrymore asked her “Drew Barrymore Show” audience while speaking about Andrew Garfield’s recent revelation that he was celibate for six months. “I was like, ‘Yeah, so?”
She sounds like an idiot! This is news?
What is idiotic about putting your children first?
I had a friend who did the same thing after her divorce. She stayed single and abstinent until they grew up and moved from the house. The kids are better people because of it. Kudos to her for for being independent and going against the grain.
If you don’t understand the importance of prioritizing your family over yourself, it’s obvious that your priorities are distorted or perhaps the idea of self control bothers you so much that you have to minimize and demean those who are brave enough and strong enough to practice it.
It doesn’t take any effort to go with the crowd and do what you feel, so what merits do you possibly earn from that? “Look everyone, I am doing exactly what everyone else can do!” Clap clap “Congratulations, You are another irrelevant product of society?”
Our bodies, our family structure, our society was meant to have limits in order for them to continue to progress and remain healthy. God made it that way. Push against this and you are hurting yourself and are taking part in encouraging the harmful and cruel activities which every people group, at least at this time, disgusts.
Totally agree with you! That person is just shallow &, had no clue
Why does she sound like a idiot? I think you do for saying that!!
I think she is smart…sex is overrated….I stopped having it since 2008 and am doing fine. People don’t need sex all the time…that is a mental illness…men need to get over sex…that is why women make fools out of most of you by using your weakness…sex….against you.
You probably don’t care if you got all types of diseases Chris…some of us care about our health and bodies.
Single or divorced women can use dildo’s with or without a partner. I think they can even claim the dildo as a dependent on their income tax.
I think Drew is doing a good thing why? Because its what she feels is right for her & her kids. I also agree sex is not love & no one actually needs it.. its a want & if you want it do it, if you dont, dont do it.. simple as that. I dont really understand her need to make it public but that’s her business also. I ain’t mad at her lol
How awesome this is to hear. I stayed single until my kids left the house, I did however date someone whom asked me to marry him many times over them years. I waited until my kids were out of the house in
College or the Service and then I accepted. Sex is a beautiful thing if you know that person first and love everything about what they stand for and whom they really are. That is called Love.