Beware of Ghosts: Episode 886
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The perils of ghosting, plus a fitness coach’s God-centered approach to health, and should you get married if you’re poor?
Featured musical artist: Aaron Shust
Roundtable: Alternatives to Ghosting
“I’ve been ghosted!” It’s a common complaint among daters, but it happens in friendships and other contexts as well. Whether you’re guilty of ghosting or have been on the receiving end of this annoyingly passive “dump,” we’d all agree there are better, kinder, and healthier ways to end a relationship, say no, and move on. Our guests disclose their own confessions and frustrations around ghosting, and offer alternative solutions for these awkward junctures in relationships.
Culture: Putting God in Your Fitness
If your January fitness goals have already been jettisoned, maybe it’s time to take a different approach. Professional fitness coach Kim Dolan Leto thinks one of our biggest diet and exercise mistakes as Christians is not inviting God into the process. But does God care about workouts and weigh-ins? What can Kim possibly be talking about? Far from a shame-based, effort-intensive plan, Kim’s approach to getting healthy is grounded in Scripture and a holistic view of how God designed our bodies to work. If you’re tired of white-knuckling your fitness goals only to fail yet again, this conversation deserves a listen.
Fit God’s Way: Your Bible-Based Guide to Food, Fitness, and Wholeness
Inbox: Can I Get Married if I’m Poor?
Culture tells us we need to be financially secure before adding marriage to the mix. Is that true, or can you get married even if you’re poor? Counselor Joannie DeBrito weighs in.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Boundless Show. Well, folks, here we are for this week's episode of The Boundless Show. I am Lisa Anderson |
| 0:16.4 | here with you. And as we often like to do, we're going to give you a little preview of what is coming |
| 0:21.3 | up on the show. For our inbox, getting married can be a beautiful thing, but is it possible to do |
| 0:27.3 | when you are poor? So one of our counselors, Joni, is going to weigh in on that. And trust me, |
| 0:33.6 | she's going to define poor. So we've got to figure that out. All right, for our culture segment, |
| 0:38.2 | in the new year, sticking to our fitness goals can be a real struggle. Some of you don't even |
| 0:43.7 | want to hear this segment, but our friend Kim Dolan Leto is going to talk us through practical |
| 0:49.3 | and attainable ways to get fit. Even if you're a young adult, y'all. This isn't about |
| 0:54.0 | like throwing tires and getting all weird andall. This isn't about like throwing |
| 0:54.8 | tires and getting all weird and stuff. This is about making good choices and most importantly |
| 1:00.2 | giving God control of your fitness. So a really fascinating conversation with her. |
| 1:04.9 | Okay, speaking of fascinating conversations, here we are for our roundtable. We have got our |
| 1:09.9 | friends, Morgan, Ryan, and Annika here. Hey, all. |
| 1:13.1 | Hello. |
| 1:13.8 | Good to have you. Okay, because we're going to talk about a dating theme topic that is basically around ghosting. |
| 1:22.0 | Now, I'm saying it's dating themed because when we think of ghosting, we always think of dating. |
| 1:26.8 | But I think we can agree that we get ghosted in many different areas of life. And it's really annoying. And I have friends who are expert goasters on a number of things. And so I think we can weave in some of that as well, but certainly just the general habit of dropping people. |
| 1:46.7 | And again, there are different reasons for doing this. So this is why I want to kind of have this |
| 1:51.0 | conversation. So first of all, let's talk about our experiences with ghosting. When you hear that |
| 1:55.7 | term, what does it mean to you and where has it applied to you either as the offended or the offender? Because if you're |
| 2:02.6 | the offender, own up to it, okay? |
| 2:05.6 | Confessions. I know. I was like, I must confess. I have ghosted before. I think I've |
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