TRUE LOVE WAITS

About the Book

True Love Waits promotes saving sex for marriage after a courtship long enough to get to know your potential partner on all levels of a relationship: intellectual, emotional, and spiritual. The author’s social conservativism is not based on any religious teachings. Rather, it is based on achieving a holistic intimacy with your boyfriend or girlfriend before becoming physically intimate. The book describes the author’s journey from the hippie days of free love to a conservative philosophy of waiting for marriage. The author’s transformation is a direct result of growing up in the 1950s and her teenage years in the late 1960s as well as her raising six children over the course of forty years.

About the Author

Joanna C. Chestnut was born and raised in a small town in New Jersey during the 1950s and 1960s. From 1972 until today, she has raised six children, five of whom are adopted. Joanna earned a bachelor’s degree from Jacksonville University in Florida and a master’s degree in nonprofit administration from Greenwich University. From 1981 to 1991, Joanna worked for an environmental law firm, Sierra Legal Defense Fund (now called Earthjustice). She then worked in a human-services agency providing oversight for a drug-and-alcohol program for women and infants. In 1998, Joanna became a grant writer and, for over ten years, helped fund nonprofit organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area. She and her husband and four of their children relocated to the Seattle, Washington, area in July of 2008. Having been divorced from her husband of twenty-six years in May 2012, Joanna now lives in Woodinville, Washington, with her two youngest children, ages eighteen and nineteen.