I just went into deep thought just now, and yes, there were other reasons mixed in with religion.

I was currently living in Arizona at the time I was 18, and I was suffering from depression from being home schooled my entire life, and not having a social life. Being home schooled my whole life caused me to have a personality disorder where I couldn't carry successful conversations with people, couldn't read body language, and didn't understand what anyone was talking about half the time. This hindered me from dating, because you need these skills in order to date (such as reading body language). I was working at Wal-Mart at this time, and a bunch of employees constantly made fun of me, laughed at me, and said nasty things behind my back. Homeschooling does cause children to develop personality disorders, because there is no social interaction. It is no myth.

Another factor mixed in with all this was the area being Arizona. It got hot there at around 100+ degrees per day which made people feel like staying in doors all day. Not only that, the state ranks #1 on a lot of sites for highest crime, so it was also hard for me to make friends there due to that. There's also a large percentage of people there that are on depression meds due to the heat, on illegal drugs, and there's also a large suicide rate there. The education system there has been ranked 50th out of all the states, there are no fun things to do in the state, there's shootings every day, the people are rude, and the list goes on. I remember one day, I just sat in my room and wanted to commit suicide, asking God to spare my soul when I was done.

So yeah, these were all factors that affected my mentality that caused me not to date. The religious part was the main reason, but all these other reasons were right behind it. I left Arizona and moved to a very educated state, and these problems stopped.

EDIT: She would go after her as in preventing her from being with me.