Meagan Good and DeVon Franklin Share Why They Took Vows of Celibacy

They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. It’s that thinking that prompted actress Meagan Good to take a different approach in her relationships with men. Suggested Reading New AI TikTok Trend Has Gorillas Posing as Black Women, and Folks are Pissed Steve…

They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. It’s that thinking that prompted actress Meagan Good to take a different approach in her relationships with men.

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During an interview with CBS to promote The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love,Β a new marital-advice book written with her husband, Good spoke about why she became celibate before her 2012 marriage. She needed to push the reset button on her spiritualΒ and love life.

β€œIt was in that prayer time that I came to the conclusion that I needed to be celibate; I needed to do something different than what I had been doing all the years before,” Good said. β€œI decided this is what I need to do for me, because I need to heal and I need to focus on myself, and I need to advance myself in every area of my life without the distraction of feeling that I need this man.”

Her husbandβ€”film and television producer and preacherΒ DeVon Franklinβ€”said that he had felt conflicted about his lifestyle because it wasn’t consistent with what he was preaching to his followers.

β€œI didn’t want to live two lives. At the time, I wasn’t practicing celibacy, but I was still talking about it, and I said, β€˜You know, I have to be the man that God called me to be,’ and part of that was taking this vow and waiting until marriage,” Franklin explained.

β€œWhen I started doing that, it gave me discipline that helped me in every other area of my life,” he said.

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