Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast. I'm your co-host, Christina Dodson. This is an Ask

Dr. Kim segment where people submit their questions for Dr. Kim Kim, and he answers them.

Thanks for listening. So today on the podcast, we're doing an Ask Dr. Kim segment. So we get questions

submitted to us and then we take time to answer them. And so today we're

going to ask a question. The question that was submitted to us was, should I have lunch with

someone of the opposite sex that isn't my spouse? So as Christians, you know, this is a common thing

about boundaries with the opposite sex and what that looks like. Dr. Kim, what do you generally

recommend when it comes to this?

Do you generally recommend that people have lunch with others of the same, of the opposite sex of

them, or do you encourage people to stay clear of that? Yeah, it's to stay clear of it. I mean,

and I think, and I know it's more difficult in our culture today because of more women in the

workforce, so you've got business

lunches and things like that. What my experience in talking to couples with that are individuals

that we're facing it is one, I think there's an intimate. There's things that just when you're

along with someone at opposite sex in a meal setting, it may be for business, but that can be a very

intimate thing. And so what I've had people do say, can you bring someone else from your office?

Can you bring someone else into it? And a lot of times they can do that. And I've had people go

to their boss and say, hey, you know, this is something I'm not comfortable with. Do you mind if when I do a lunch like that that I bring Bob with me or

marry with me or somebody else? And so I think there's ways to do that. And we need in a little more

some of the reasons I don't think those ideas are good. But in generally, I think it's just not a good policy.

I mean, you know, when I see people with the fairs, usually lunch, dinner, coffee has been a part of that in some way.

Exactly. Yeah. And I think, too, it happens like in the workforce, but it also happens like with random things.

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