Dating Decisions… commit or quit?

How do I know if it’s time to get engaged or time to break up?

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AUDIO: If you’ve been dating someone for a while, at some point you’ll reach a place where either you both feel that you want to get married and so you get engaged, or by contrast, one or both of you realise that the relationship isn’t going to end in marriage… Read more.

Dating Decisions… kissing

Kissing can provoke strong emotions so is it wise to kiss when dating?

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Amongst Christians there are different views on kissing when ‘dating’ or ‘going out’ with someone of the opposite sex. Before we look at this, it is good to think more generally about kissing. From everyday life we can see that there are various types of kissing.  A kiss of any… Read more.

Dating Decisions… only date someone who is also a Christian

Why, if you’re Christian, you should only date someone who is a Christian too

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If you’re young and single, you might be tempted to think, “I know as a Christian I should only marry someone who’s a Christian, but dating’s different right? Surely, dating’s ok because I’m just getting to know them better, I’m not actually marrying them or anything”. As we learned in… Read more.

Dating Despair…

Taylor Swift’s latest album reflects modern dating despair

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I don’t know if you are a Swiftie or not? Taylor Swift’s latest album – The Tortured Poets Department – has been described by some as capturing the feeling or phenomenon of ‘modern dating despair’. Relationship break up is and always has been a source of great sadness, but the… Read more.

7. Marriage – a personal story

Sam and Rach testify to the blessings of marriage

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We’ve been joyfully married for 8 years, and we’d like to share some of the ways we’ve been blessed by our marriage. I (Sam) didn’t get married until I was 30, so there were a fair few years where I lived out of my family home as a single man.… Read more.

6. Marriage – lowers risk of domestic violence

Statistics show that marriage is the most protective factor

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Domestic or partner abuse is common and much more commonly happens to girls/women than to men.  Relationships between men and women were not designed to be this way: Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself… Read more.