Foundations of Healthy Dating & The Church's Role: Interview with Debra Fileta | Ep. 5
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Awesome Marriage 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.
RESOURCES
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.
Two other great resources by Debra:
21 Days to Jump Start Your Love Life
21 Days to Pray for Your Love Life
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. |
| 0:10.4 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson, and the admin for Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:15.3 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith. |
| 0:19.7 | Dr. Kim Kim Kim, is the founder of I Want an Awesome Marriage and author of Seven |
| 0:24.9 | Secrets to an Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:27.4 | Mill Smith is the innovation pastor at Community Bible Church in San Antonio, as well as the |
| 0:33.0 | innovation director at Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:35.6 | To engage with the Awesome Marriage podcast, use the hashtag Awesome |
| 0:39.6 | Marriage. Today on the podcast, professional counselor, speaker, and author of True Love Dates, |
| 0:47.6 | Deborah Falada joins Dr. Kim as they talk about the foundations for healthy dating and the church's |
| 0:54.0 | role when it comes to dating. |
| 0:55.9 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:58.3 | Deborah, thank you so much for joining us today. |
| 1:01.0 | It is an honor to have you on the Awesome Marriage Podcast. |
| 1:03.8 | Welcome. |
| 1:04.7 | Thank you. |
| 1:05.4 | It's so good to be here with you. |
| 1:07.4 | Thanks a lot. |
| 1:08.4 | Let's start out with you. |
| 1:09.5 | Just kind of tell a little bit about your and John's story, |
| 1:11.9 | how you met, you know, what dating was like for you guys. And kind of how does that compare |
| 1:17.2 | to some of the things that you teach to people, talk to people about? Yeah, well, John and I actually |
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