EXCLUSIVE: Lauren Goodger recently hinted she’s sworn off sex after a string of failed romances, and no longer has time for casual flings and instead wants something more meaningful
Lauren Goodger’s celibacy journey has been praised by pals who say she is right to “take her time” before embarking on her next relationship.
Last week, the TOWIE star hinted that she’s sworn off sex after a string of failed romances, and no longer has time for casual flings and instead wants something more meaningful.
Taking to Instagram, Lauren shared a post about a man discussing why women stay celibate, which read, “The longer a woman stays celibate, the idea of someone touching her who doesn’t meet her mental, physical, and spiritual wants and needs will literally make her feel sick.”
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It went on, “She’s no longer willing to settle for meaningless exchanges or relationships that don’t serve and nourish her soul.” Now, a source close to Lauren has told new her pals are relieved she’s taking a stand, after years of heartache.
“She’s trying to meet the right person because she’s had such a traumatic, turbulent love life in the past,” says our source. “She deserves someone good, but she usually rushes in and goes for the bad boys.
“So, this time, she’s really going to take her time and she wants to find the right one. She’s getting older and she wants to be settled. I think she’s being sensible for once.”
Lauren, 39, has previously confessed to enjoying periods of celibacy. In 2019, she famously posted, “Can’t believe I didn’t have sex for 2 years”, but quickly deleted it. Hinting why she’s no longer a fan of meaningless flings, she’s previously said, “I’m a very sexual person, but I don’t want to be intimate with someone unless I’m in a relationship. I want to settle down and have the fairy tale.”
“She became celibate because she was making bad decisions with the worst sort of men,” adds our source, regarding Lauren’s decision to wait for Mr Right. “She felt every time she went to bed with one of them, it wouldn’t work out.
“She’s had a lot of therapy and they said, ‘Don’t rush in.’ She always seems to rush in, so this is her way of trying to find the right guy, because she just jumps into bed with them. Then, the next thing, she’s fallen for them, and it’s not worked out, and she just gets hurt.”
Recently, fans were concerned Lauren had rekindled her relationship with ex Charles Drury – father to her daughter Larose, four, and Lorena, who tragically died shortly after her birth in 2022. Over the summer, the pair were said to have enjoyed a “double date” with Lauren’s TOWIE pal Junaid Ahmed and his boyfriend Joe Blackman.
While Lauren has lurched from one ill-fated relationship to another, she now appears to have gained some clarity. But our source says her troubles stem from never fully recovering from her very public break-up with fellow TOWIE star Mark Wright 13 years ago.
“She’s always loved Mark, she will always love Mark – and she feels Mark will always love her,” says our source. “They were good together when they were together. I think it’s had a big, deep effect on her. She’s had a tough time, she’s had a lot of grief.”
Earlier this year Lauren confessed she has struggled to find another man who measures up to her first love, who’s now happily married to Brassic actress Michelle Keegan, who he shares eight-month-old daughter Palma with.
Speaking last year on Married At First Sight UK expert Paul Brunson’s podcast, We Need To Talk, Lauren said, “He was the love of my life. We wouldn’t have stayed together for that long if he didn’t have this mutual feeling for me. I never ever thought I was going to love anyone else. I was with him for 12 years on and off.”
Lauren and Mark, 38, were the ITV reality show’s original golden couple, getting engaged on screen in March 2011. But their relationship was dogged by cheating scandals, with Mark having flings with co-stars Sam Faiers and Lucy Mecklenburgh, and the pair separated the following year.
After Mark found love with Michelle, also 38, in late 2012, Lauren embarked on an ill-fated three-year relationship with Jake McLean, who was killed in a car accident in 2022. And after dating jailbird Joey Morrison for two years, in 2020 she fell for builder Charles, who had previously dated her former pal, Katie Price.
But that also ended on a sour note. After briefly splitting in 2021, they finally called time on their relationship the following summer. In August 2022, Drury was accused of assaulting Lauren on the day of their daughter’s funeral, but the case was dropped after she withdrew her support for the prosecution.
For now, Lauren’s pals feel staying single would give her time to heal and prepare for when she finally meets someone special. “She’s had a lot of bad boys in her life and she needs to work on herself,” says our source. “She needs to work on her own self-esteem.”
After everything she has endured, it’s good to see Lauren finally putting herself first.
Source: Mirror
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