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

Is this a loaded question or what?! But, what better time to answer it than at Christmas time when we are focused on the greatest demonstration of love ever? God sent His Son, to redeem His people in the ultimate display of love. We're taking a look at some of your common questions about love... how do I know I'm in love? When to say I love you? and more. Then, we're going to take a look at what we can learn about love from God's love for us.

We have talked a lot about confidence, and how attractive it is, on this podcast. So, the question was posed... WHY is it attractive? What is it about a confident guy that is just so attractive? That's the question we're answering today!

It's our "Question Episode" for this season! We asked you guys what are the hard parts and what are the good parts of being single in the church? And oh boy, did you guys have things to say! We created this episode entirely around the feedback we got from you.

This is a little different than our usual episode format! Since it's a holiday week, we're going to have some fun with it! Today, we're playing games... dating games to be specific... Would You Rather, True/False, and Never Have I Ever. It was super fun and if you go follow along on IG (@lftm_podcast) on release day, you can play too!

Then, we're going to take a look at the games we all tend to play when it comes to dating. Playing hard to get, stringing people along, all that sort of thing. We're going to take a look at what some of the most common games that you see in dating and then whether or not they're really a God honoring way to go about relationships.

This was one of our longest CouchCast episodes ever! We loved this conversation. As two girls who definitely have self-sabotage tendencies when it comes to relationships, we can definitely relate. We discuss what can cause this kind of thinking, what we should be thinking instead, how to overcome it, and the role your community plays in this.

Our Men Tell All series returns with this interview with Dalton Teal. Dalton is 26 years old and works in full-time ministry. This was a great conversation that provided lots of insight into the male brain when it comes to dating, wisdom for pursuing Godly relationships, and plenty of laughs along the way. Normally, we trim these down and only release the full-length interview on Patreon, but we just couldn't decide what to cut out, so enjoy all of it!

If you follow us on Instagram (@lftm_podcast), you saw yesterday that we had some unexpected audio issues with this week's original episode and we're going to have to re-record part of it. So, in the meantime, enjoy this full, uncut interview with Jared that was previously only released on Patreon in its full length form.

 

In this Men Tell All episode, we interviewed Kristen's boss, Jared. He is a great godly husband and father who brings a great variety of perspective to this series. We ask him some of our tried and true questions as well as some new and different ones. It was a great discussion and we learned a lot!!

The answer to this question could go two ways... Are you interested in dating one of your friends or do you just want them to be on the lookout for someone you could date? We're taking a look at both scenarios in today's episode.

Let's be honest... it can be tricky sometimes trying to figure out what to say, or what not to say, to single friends. Whether you yourself are single or not, either way it can be tough. We're taking a look at some of the things that are really helpful and encouraging, and then some of the things that aren't really all that helpful too. We're also talking about extending lots of grace!

 

**We go on several rabbit trails at the beginning. You've been warned! If that's not your thing, skip to about 15 minutes to get into it.

We all know the internet and social media are everywhere! This is not news to anyone... between ordering groceries online, buying a car online, it would naturally follow that we should just be able to order a husband from Amazon, right?! Dating in a social media age though isn't quite that simple. It's not all bad either. In today's episode, we're looking at some ways the internet and social media have helped dating (when used correctly) and then also some drawbacks to it as well.