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  My awesome future mother-in-law, sister-in-law’s, and I have been emailing about modesty. Because it’s worth talking about.
 This is one thing that I mentioned, and I felt it was worth sharing:

  I think it is important that girls know that it perfectly natural to desire to be beautiful, attractive, and desirable to a man.
  It is however VERY important what you do with that desire- you can use that to help drive your goal of purity, in wanting to be able to be beautiful and captivating to your husband in a way that you never sought to be to another man. Or you can let that desire to be rooted in vanity and promiscuity, seeking approval and validation from ANY man.
  My sister and I talked about this a while ago- how every woman wants to know that she is beautiful and worthwhile, and the importance of finding your assurance of that FIRST is God, how He has created you, and His love for you, and  then second in your husband- NOT simply in any man who gives you the once-over.

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