What's going on guys? Happy 2025. This is Tavares, your host of the Gali Dating 101 channel.

And I am doing this episode solo today. But Safa sends her love and her regards to you guys.

I want to thank you for those who waited patiently for this episode to get back online.

We've been in a bit of a drill. You know, it's taking forever to actually get into

these episodes and finally get content to you guys, but just to know our heart is always to serve you.

And today I want to talk a little bit about discernment and dating because I think discernment

is something we don't talk about enough in the church, but it's something

that we should discuss today because especially when it comes to believers and trying to get

into relationships, you have to have discernment because it's easy to get fooled.

You know, in today's day and age is very, people always say dating seems much harder than

it was back in my day.

They make it seem like I got married 30 years ago. But a lot of people use the analogy like

the dating pool has urine in it. If you know, that's disgusting, but it's the way to put it.

Um, it's kind of hard, um hard to find quality individuals nowadays. Some people

say, I can find someone attractive, but they're not spiritual. I can find someone spiritual,

but I don't find them attractive, a little bit of both, you know, here and there. But I think it's

genuinely easy to start a relationship now. The problem is, is much more difficult to see someone's true character

before people start their relationship. So you have all these churches and so few galley options.

We have like all the dating apps now. People have the Tinder. I can't even think of the names

of some of these things. E-Harmony. I don't know what people use.

But a bunch of weird stuff that people use that, you know, they use these little hookup apps.

You know, I hear my unsaved friends or coworkers talk about these things. And I'm just looking like,

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