Gen Z and Dating Apps: Episode 890
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Overcommitment on church activities, plus Suzanne Gosselin on Gen Z’s apathy toward dating apps, and what if your date has mental health issues?
Featured musical artist: Jeremy Rosado
Roundtable: Church Involvement Overload
Sunday services. Volunteering. Helping others throughout the week. Not to mention Bible study, small group, committee meetings and discipleship. If you aren’t careful, doing good and even “godly” activities out of guilt can lead to burnout. Besides, if you’re always at church, what do you do about your neighbor and others who don’t know Christ? To help us find equilibrium, our guests share how they’re learning to pause, prioritize and even cut back on their commitments to find joy in what God actually wants from them and for them.
Culture: A Young Adult Exodus From Online Dating
In the early 2000s online dating sites were brand new, and heading into the 2010s and beyond, increasing numbers of couples credited digital connections for helping them find their spouse. But the latest statistics indicate Gen Z is ditching online dating apps. Boundless friend and contributor Suzanne Gosselin shares insight on why young adults aren’t as prone to swipe right as older generations.
True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life
Dating Apps Lose Popularity Among Gen Z
Inbox: Dating and Mental Health Issues
Is it possible to have a good dating relationship if you or your significant other struggles with depression, anxiety, or other forms of mental illness? Counselor Joannie DeBrito joins us to answer.
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| 0:00.0 | Boundless Show. |
| 0:11.4 | All right, friends, welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. |
| 0:14.7 | This is Lisa Anderson here with you, and I'm going to give you a little preview of what is coming up. |
| 0:21.4 | We've got some great segments ahead. |
| 0:23.2 | Hopefully all of y'all soldiered through Valentine's Day and made it out alive. |
| 0:28.6 | We're very proud of you if you did, so that's exciting. |
| 0:31.5 | But here we are now. |
| 0:32.4 | We're going to head towards the end of February, and here's what we've got coming up this week. |
| 0:36.4 | What if you are interested in dating |
| 0:38.1 | someone and you find out that they have serious mental health issues? Is it possible to date them, |
| 0:44.4 | and what does it look like for you to date them? One of our counselors, Joni DeBrito, is going to |
| 0:48.9 | weigh in on that. And then for our culture segment, statistics indicate that Gen Z is getting off of dating apps. |
| 0:55.7 | Why is this? |
| 0:57.2 | So one of our boundless contributors, Suzanne Goslin, is going to weigh in on this fun discussion. |
| 1:02.3 | She actually wrote an article for us on it. |
| 1:04.5 | And so we're going to talk through some of the implications that she made in that. |
| 1:08.5 | Okay, here we are for our roundtable. |
| 1:10.7 | And this is really a conversation that |
| 1:12.8 | we're going to have based on a suggestion from one of you. The topic being, what does it look |
| 1:18.8 | like to not overcommit on spiritual activities? So that could be ministry, volunteering, doing church, |
| 1:25.6 | doing Bible study, doing all the things. They all sound good, but if we're just |
| 1:29.9 | doing a bunch of stuff for the sake of doing it, or we find ourselves taxed on either end of that |
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