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I think if I were to make a list of things that teens have to look out for.

I would have to include dating as one of those things because that's a major pothole in life.

And a lot of kids just aren't built

to handle the ups and downs of relationship.

I'm John Fuller, Danny Werta's my co-host,

and Danny, when it comes to teen dating are there any differences

between guys and girls I'm thinking there probably is but I'll ask the question

anyway in terms of in terms of dating or is there any difference in expectations and approaches?

And a few podcasts ago we talked about redo's this is where a lot of redo's would happen

and the boyfriend girlfriend relationship would be

you'd go back and date differently in high school?

You would probably treat, with what I know now from a more grounded perspective as a man treating

and having a daughter, I would treat dating very differently and I think a lot of people would especially in Christian homes.

We would agree. So as parents we get to mentor our kids into this and there are differences between boys and girls.

Guys go physical first relationship and emotional connection second and it's not

that they don't love that relationship and the emotional connection but it's a

it's a physical interest first and for girls it's emotional relationship first in

physical second it's not that they're not interested in the physical it's just the

priorities are a little different the way they go into the relationship

with a passion and that's the key one we enter dating with passion and the other parts of our characters start to catch up with them and

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