Sounds to me like you’re pre-excusing your own behavior. If you can’t trust you who can you trust? All these things are voluntary actions is it really that hard to not do them? Women don’t have mind control powers like in the Fu Manchu stories, if you go doinking a chick not the spouse it’s because you decided to, not because you trusted yourself too much.
Jeremiah 17:9 - The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
"All these things are voluntary actions is it really that hard to not do them?"
Well no I suppose not but if you sat a fat kid down alone in a candy store and told him it's not that hard he would probably agree,then stuff himself 4 seconds after you turned your back.
In all honesty I have enough crap floating through between my ears to deal with without adding the (to me at least) inevitable sexual fantasies that would be bashing the doors down should I spend a little too much time with an attractive woman that isn't my wife.
Good grief what a run on sentence,I need a cold shower.
I think,in my case anyway,that "he who trusteth himself too much trusts a fool" is a wise err on the side of caution.In fact,he probably came up with that from watching me.
it’s more about not putting myself in the position where I may be tempted rather than a ready made excuse. Everyone has their weaknesses and areas where they might be easily lead off track. For some it’s the ladies, others money or booze, drugs, vanity, violent behavior. If you haven’t found one in yourself yet then God bless ya but I have all too many and find it is easier to avoid temptation rather than have to deal with it when it is right in front of me.
Mel