Looking For The Middle: The Christian’s Guide to Modern Dating

I think this was Kristen's favorite ever CouchCast question! ....the person asking made a reference to The Bachelor in her question and that's all it took! If you find yourself in this same place of worrying about what potential dates might think of your previous dating history (or lack thereof), we're talking about several different perspectives you can take that will hopefully lessen that worry and burden!

This term "equally yoked" gets thrown around a lot, but do you know how to apply it to your current or future relationships? Sometimes it gets over-simplified to "just marry someone who loves Jesus"... and sometimes we make it way more complicated than it has to be. So, today, we're taking a look at what 2 Corinthians 6:14 does say, what it doesn't say, and how you can take the principle behind it and apply it to your relationship, or future relationship, today.

We over-think. We over-complicate. We over-analyze. And in the process we end up looking at dating as a chore rather than a fun experience! It's ok for dating to be fun! Let's put some of that fun back into it.... we've got some tips and ideas for doing just that today.

This was a great question from one of our male listeners! We're taking a look at those intangible things that really up the attractiveness factor outside of someone's looks!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you heard last week's episode, you heard us talk about what it looks like when life doesn't go according to plan and you find yourself in a season of waiting. Today, we're going to take that a step further and look at what to do while you're waiting. We're answering questions like what are you actually waiting for? What's the purpose of waiting? and what to do in the meantime?

We can all say this to some extent, right? Life never fully goes how we plan and especially when it comes to dating and relationships, we will most likely all find our lives going somewhat differently than we had planned. Does that mean God's forgotten us? Is He still good? What does His Word have to say about the feelings that come along with a life that didn't go according to plan?

There's a tricky balance between talking about the deeper, important things and "scaring someone off". A lot of it comes down to timing and how you choose to broach the subject in the first place. So, today, we're taking a look at those things and offering some advice from the times we've had these same conversations. 

This is one of our most requested topics! How do I know a guy's interested? What will he do when he is? Is he pursuing? Is it ok for me to pursue? We get all of these questions on the regular, so today we're breaking down pursuit... what it looks like, what it doesn't, how it looks at different relationship stages, and more!

We're convinced you learned everything you needed to know about dating before you ever left Kindergarten! And today, we're going to walk through the top 10 things on that list... clean up your own mess, use your words, keep your hands to yourself, and more!

It's the second half of "Mantra Week" today and we're rounding things out with Bethany's mantra, "Don't Date in a Bubble". We're going to talk about what it looks like when you are dating in a bubble, what it looks like when you're not dating in a bubble, and what to do if you find yourself in a dating bubble but want to get out.