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Unfortunately, rather than move the date up, we recently had to move it back. His mom is a nonmember and was very adamant about us waiting longer (she threatened not to come if we didn't move the date back) As she is his only family coming to the wedding, we pushed it back. That was a big worry for us both. While we understand getting married sooner would help in it not being sinful behavior, we also don't want to marry each other just for sex. That's not why we love each other, at all. We have recognized that it is very lustful for us to give in to the temptation and that we aren't showing our love to each other when we allow one another (and ourselves) to break the law of chastity. He has yet to be given the melchizedek priesthood (he is a convert of one year) and would have been able to if we didn't mess up. Neither one of us can partake of the sacrament or enter the temple right now and it has been really trying for us both. We have actually been doing really well the last few days. His bishop really helped this last time, letting us see more of what we are missing that could be so strengthening to our relationship right now. We started reading the Book of Mormon together and I am axcited to see the light of Christ come back into my life. We know that we are right for each other, we just didn't make some right decisions. We just need to move forward from where we are now. We have 2 months until the wedding (it would have only been one month) so we just need to be at our strongest these next 9 weeks.

My fiancee and I have been dating for 11 months. We messed up in January and saw our bishops soon after. We worked through it and were good for 3 months. Ever since April, we've messed up multiple times. Beforehand, it was grinding/dry humping. Recently it has progressed to going all the way. We know we aren't temple worthy so we are getting civally married by his bishop. We want to be sealed a year from our wedding day. We know if we do not make a change asap, we may have to wait even longer than a year. We need to stop in order to continue with the repentance process and have messed up so many times now that the guilt is hardly there anymore. What has worked for those of you who have broken the law of chastity?