I think a pretty common question for couples who are fairly seriously dating in the

Christian community is how far is too far.

And today we'll encourage you to ask a different question.

I'm Jean Fuller joined by my focus on the family colleagues,

Aaron and Greg, it's important to guard a dating relationship from sexual

temptation. I mean there there are going to be urges but how do we set up boundaries

and stay healthy? Yeah it I think it's so important that we understand that every time we make little

small compromises, so as we've talked this through, as we've decided as a couple, what

are those boundaries look like when we push

those when we blow past those they create little micro cracks in the

foundation that we're really trying to build. So just understand at one level is we make these compromises,

we are we are creating a cracked foundation

that will need to be repaired at some point.

So it's just understanding that.

I think it's also understanding, you know, what does God really want us to do here?

How can we honor and glorify him? Because again, there's consequence there.

When we go against what he's really desiring for us,

I think the research talks about the couples who wait to have sex. They report actually

higher, much higher levels of sexual satisfaction within their marriage.

And so that, you know, there's just so many good things like that that really

guarding and protecting our relationship you're teaching the relationship. How do we

make these harder decisions around important boundaries? How do we respect those?

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