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The Boundless Show

Gender Roles in Dating: Episode 897

The Boundless Show

Focus on the Family

Religion & Spirituality, Relationships, Christianity, Society & Culture

4.7772 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Roles and rhythms while dating, plus strategies to combat loneliness, and when he feels attraction in a relationship but she doesn’t.   

Featured musical artist:  Tauren Wells

Roundtable: Who Does What When Dating?

A listener recently asked what roles, if any, men and women should play in a dating relationship. The question raises many more questions: Should the guy make the first move? Does biblical submission apply in dating? Who should pay for dates? What does leadership of the relationship look like? We tackle these questions and more with our panel of newly-married and engaged individuals.    

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Culture: Overcoming Loneliness

Loneliness is a worldwide epidemic. A recent U.S. Surgeon General report states that one in two adults feels isolated. The need for connection is greater than ever, and Christians should be the first to prioritize it. Becky Harling has fought hard for real relationships in her life, and is here to show us how to do the same.   

Cultivating Deeper Connections in a Lonely World   

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Inbox: One-Sided Attraction

A listener has been dating her boyfriend for three months. He’s excited about the relationship, but she’s just not feeling it. Is there reason to stick it out and hope for attraction to grow? Counselor Kari A weighs in. 

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Link to Counseling Services 

Choosing Attraction   

Transcript

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0:00.0

Boundless Show.

0:12.2

All right, friends, here we are for this week's episode of The Boundless Show.

0:16.0

I'm Lisa Anderson here with you.

0:18.1

Let me give you a little preview of what we have coming up later on in the

0:21.5

show. For our inbox, a woman has been dating a guy for three months. She still doesn't seem to

0:28.3

have feelings for him, but he is completely in love with her. Well, what does this mean for the

0:33.0

relationship going forward? Should she pause? Should she talk to people? We're going to ask one of our counselors

0:38.5

to weigh in on that. And then for our culture segment, Becky Harleen is passionate about helping

0:44.0

people grow spiritually. She is a very mentor-ish type person, an amazing author, mentor,

0:51.0

women's leader. And she's actually going to address growing trends of loneliness in our culture

0:55.7

and what it means to actually be connected, not just know people or be around people. So she's going to

1:03.6

give us some great tips related to that. Okay, here we are for our roundtable. We have got Ryan,

1:09.0

Christina, and Tommy here. Hey, you guys. Hi, Lisa. Very good to have you back.

1:14.1

We have got Ryan fresh back from his honeymoon in Asia. What in the world? So we'll have to figure out

1:21.4

just a way to catch up on that because that's pretty amazing. Not that I didn't follow it on social a

1:26.1

little bit, but it was really cool to see pictures. But also, Tommy and Christina engaged, planning a wedding. We've talked about

1:34.5

planning a wedding on this show. So that'll be fun to see that come to fruition. But let's go ahead and

1:40.8

jump in. We're actually going to talk about, are there gender roles in dating?

1:45.8

This is like already people are like, oh my goodness, this is very scary, this conversation.

1:50.7

So the minute we say gender, the minute we say roles and the minute we say dating is like a trifecta

1:57.2

of scariness, put them all together and people are just like, I don't know if I could do it.

2:01.9

So we do know that biblically, we can point to Ephesians 5, we can point to a number of

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