I wrote a huge reply but it was too detailed and didn't feel appropriate to talk about in the comments of someone else's post.

Thank you for your kind words.

I guess I want to say, I can understand people who compartmentalize sex. For some sex is always divorced from feelings. For others sex is fun with Y guy and meaningful with X guy.

That makes sense to me.

But like you, it's not how I operate. Sex is sacred and while I don't need it to be in the context of marriage, I don't have sex with someone I'm not willing to have a child with, and I don't have sex with people I am not earnestly trying to have in my life forever. (I have never gotten anyone pregnant. But the risk is always there.)

Forever rarely pans out to be a romantic forever. But I go above and beyond to remain friends with everyone I've connected with physically.