Best of Podcast: Foundations of Healthy Dating & The Church’s Role - Interview with Debra Fileta

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

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4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2017

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This is a podcast that aired last year that we wanted to highlight again because of the incredible insight Debra brought to the table.

In this podcast we have professional counselor, speaker, and author of True Love Dates, Debra Fileta joining Dr. Kim as they talk about the foundations for healthy dating and the church's role when it comes to dating.

Debra is happily married to John and they have two beautiful children, Elijah and Ella. Debra is a licensed professional counselor who specializes in dating, marriage, and relationship issues. She is a writer and regular contributor of Relevant Magazine and Crosswalk.com as well as author of True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life.

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True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life is a practical book on dating and a great resource for dating couples or singles preparing to date.

You can hear more great insights from Debra on her blog. You can also follow her on Twitter!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Awesome Marriage Podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and how to have the relationship that God has designed for you.
0:09.7	I am your co-host, Christina Dodson.
0:11.9	On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nell Smith.
0:15.7	To engage with the Awesome Marriage podcast, use the hashtag Awesome Marriage.
0:21.2	Welcome to today's Awesome Marriage Instant Classic podcast.
0:25.0	In this podcast, Deborah Faleta, our good friend and I discuss healthy dating in the
0:29.2	church's role when it comes to dating.
0:31.6	Deborah shares great insights on how to date smart and how you can honor God in your dating.
0:36.6	Please enjoy this awesome marriage instant
0:38.6	classic podcast. Deborah, thank you so much for joining us today. It is an honor to have
0:45.0	to you on the awesome marriage podcast. Welcome. Thank you. It's so good to be here with you.
0:50.2	Thanks a lot. Let's start out with you just kind of tell a little bit about your and John's story,
0:54.8	how you met, you know, what dating was like for you guys. And kind of how does that compare to
1:00.2	some of the things that you teach to people, talk to people about? Yeah, well, John and I actually
1:06.3	met at a conference up in Boston, Massachusetts. He was about to start his graduate school work,
1:14.7	and I was in the middle of mine. And our interactions actually blossomed into a really
1:19.7	great friendship. You know, when we first met, that is really the core of our relationship.
1:24.7	We were just genuinely friends. We were friends for about five months,
1:29.6	and then we started dating. And really, our dating experience, if I had to describe it in a
1:36.8	couple words, I would say it was slow and steady. You know, we really took our time to get to
1:42.5	know one another. And if I'm honest, I think the fact that we were long distance really aided in that process because it kind of forced us to really get to know each other. You know, when you're on the phone with someone for most of your relationship, you can only talk about the weather for so long. And after a a while you have to start talking about things that
2:01.7	are a little bit more significant and just revealing the truth about who you are to each other
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