Hey everyone it's Leslie Ludi host of the Set-A-Part-Girl Podcast, Biblical Encouragement for Women of All Ages. Today we're going to be starting a series on Godly relationships, and this episode is about the best

way to prepare for marriage.

I'm excited about this topic because I think there are a lot of misconceptions

of what is the best way to prepare for marriage.

A lot of people used to tell me when I was a young adult

and in my single years that dating around and being with lots of different guys and kind of

seeing which personalities I was compatible with was going to be the best preparation for marriage.

But what I found was, as I jumped into one temporary relationship after the next, it really didn't

prepare me for marriage. It set me up more for divorce than anything

else because so casually I would jump into a relationship and give my heart, my emotions,

pour myself into this relationship, and then as soon as one of us got

tired of it, we would move on to the next person. And after this cycle had

happened in my life a few times and led to a lot of heartbreak, I remember thinking, you know, this is actually

preparing me for a divorce mentality, to casually jump into a relationship and then to bail out

as soon as things get difficult.

So I began to really pray and say,

God, what is your way to prepare for marriage?

And God took me on an amazing journey

in which I realized that preparing for marriage is very different than the

mentality that this culture gives us and says date around, explore all these

relationships, give your heart to one person after the next and that's how you prepare for

marriage. God's way of preparing for marriage is completely different.

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