Meagan Good speaks onstage during the ‘Minority Report’ panel discussion at the FOX portion of the 2015 Summer TCA Tour at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on August 6, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California.
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Actress Meagan Good is hoping to encourage more couples to wait for sex in a relationship after agreeing to give her romance with her minister husband a year before they slept together.

The Think Like a Man star gave herself the chance to really get to know her then-boyfriend, DeVon Franklin, before they consummated their romance, and now the couple is working on a new relationship self-help book, titled The Wait, which details their no-sex vow. Good, who wed Franklin in 2012, says, “I speak to young women because I think a lot of the images that are out there now teach women that they need to be a certain kind of way in order to get attention or be considered valuable…

“I do encourage them to wait but I’m not preachy or religious. I feel like if you have a better sense of self and you love yourself the right person will wait for you…

“For my marriage… there was a solid, ‘I could spend the rest of my life with you and you could be my partner on this entire journey – and I respect you and I love you – and then there’s the icing on the cake.”

Asked if she’d go back and take a year-long vow again, she smirks, “It was very much worth the wait!”

Her new book will be released next year (16) just after Valentine’s Day (14Feb16).

SOURCE: WENN