Welcome to the Bear Marriage podcast. I'm Sheila Wright-Gregwar from Bearmarriage.com,

where we'd like to talk about healthy, evidence-based biblical advice for your sex life and your marriage or your dating life.

As we are talking about today, I am joined by my daughter Rebecca Lindenbach.

Hello.

And this is the episode that we have shied away from doing.

Despite the fact that you have hounded us for it for many a moon.

Well, I mean, I've always kind of been hesitant to do this one too. Well, and we have

good reason, right? Both of us got married incredibly young to fantastic people. We are still married to.

Yes. And so did your sister. And so it's just like we, this isn't something like dating as an

adult. Yeah. And going through a prolonged period of singleness is not something we've ever

had to deal with. Yeah. But we get so many questions about it. And so I thought, you know what,

let's just tackle it. Last time we didn't ask me anything, I put up on Instagram, asked me any

question, and I swear half of them we're about dating. So we're going to let you know, we're not going to speak from personal experience, except for if we say this is personal experience. We're mostly going to be

talking about what we found in our research, because we have done a lot of research on the effects

of certain things. And we've seen patterns in our qualitative research of people who got married

later or who got married, you know, not at 20.

And we have really fascinating discussions about this in our patron group, actually.

So if you can join our patron group too, that's a great intro to it.

For as little as $5 a month, you can support us at patreon.com slash bear marriage. The link is in the podcast notes. You get access to it. For as little as $5 a month, you can support us at patreon.com slash bear marriage. The link is

in the podcast notes. You get access to our exclusive Facebook group, which has several hundred

people, and you get exclusive podcasts that only are patrons here, where we go a little bit more

unfiltered and all kind of stuff. So we do talk a lot about dating there. And I thought what we could do today is some of the big picture questions. So here's what we're not

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