Intentional Dating

The Real Marriage Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 919 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Dating should be intentional and have a real purpose. One of the biggest mistakes we can make while dating is getting physical too soon. We talk about the biggest mistake we made while dating and how that affected our marriage for years. Links/Offers mentioned in this episode: The Right One by Jimmy Evans XO Now App - 25% off your first month Faithful Counseling - 10% off your first month Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So casual dating is maybe you're dating a lot of people.
0:05.0	Intentional is just one. Casual is there's not really a goal. We'll just see what happens.
0:10.0	Intentional is no, I want to get married. And so I'm not looking for, you know, 17 amazing
0:16.0	boyfriends or girlfriends. I'm trying to find one spouse for the rest of my life.
0:20.0	What happens in casual
0:21.6	dating, you tend to isolate away from family, friends, and the relationship has some hiddenness,
0:27.8	some secrecy. In intentional dating, you're getting to know one another's, family, friends,
0:33.7	church, the people that know and love this person, you're like, I want to get to know them,
0:37.4	and I want them to get to know me.
0:39.5	Well, howdy?
0:40.5	I'm Mark.
0:41.5	She's Grace.
0:42.5	Grace, my best friend since March 12th, 1988.
0:47.1	And welcome to the Real Marriage Podcast for our friends at Marriage Today and the XO
0:52.9	podcast network. We are doing a five-part series, five episodes for this season,
0:59.5	and it is what would be the biggest mistake that people tend to make
1:03.8	in the various seasons of their life and romantic relationship
1:07.2	and also the priority that should be in each of those seasons.
1:11.3	So in episode one, we looked at the single years and how we tend not to focus as we ought
1:16.6	on becoming the healthiest best version of ourselves.
1:20.1	Today, episode two, we're going to talk about the dating and engagement phase.
1:25.5	And don't turn it off.
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