Lost in Love: Episode 736
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Date without compromising who you are, plus a discussion on friendships with the opposite gender, and should your parents approve of your date?
Featured musical artist: All Sons & Daughters ( https://www.instagram.com/allsanddmusic/ )
Roundtable: Dating Someone Without Losing Yourself
Your friend started dating someone, but now they’ve gone MIA. Or you know someone who got in a relationship and turned into a different person. Too many people are willing to compromise their values, personality and time for someone else, and the results are usually disastrous. Our guests share how they brought balance and accountability to their relationships in order to stay true to who they really are.
Culture: Guy and Girl Friendships (Part 1)
Ambiguous male/female friendships — they happen to the best of us. Fortunately, Boundless contributors Joshua Rogers and Suzanne Gosselin have written about the subject and are here to talk about it. Are opposite-gender friendships possible? What happens when one party develops feelings for the other? In part one of our discussion, Joshua and Suzanne share the possibilities and pitfalls of being “just friends.”
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Inbox: Should Your Parents Approve?
He has a new girlfriend and wonders if his parents need to approve of the relationship. He feels they tend to be controlling, but he also wants to honor their opinion. What should he do? Counselor Glenn Lutjens weighs in.
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| 0:00.0 | Friends, it is that time of year when people contact you and ask you to bless them as we are in the Christmas season and heading into a new year with a monetary gift. |
| 0:12.2 | And you know what? |
| 0:12.8 | I'm just going to go ahead and do that on behalf of Boundless. |
| 0:15.8 | This is Lisa Anderson, host of The Boundless Show. |
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| 1:02.0 | Well, hey everyone and welcome to this week's episode of The Belmont Show, Lisa Anderson, here with you, as I usually am. |
| 1:16.8 | And this week, also no exception. |
| 1:19.2 | I like to give you a little preview of what's coming up. |
| 1:21.6 | So later on for our inbox, we have a listener who started dating a girl and is wondering how important it is for his parents to approve, really, of their relationship. |
| 1:31.8 | And he said they can be a little bit controlling. |
| 1:34.1 | And so he wants to know how can he kind of weigh into the conversation, value their opinions, but still assert kind of what he feels as well. |
| 1:41.8 | And so our counselor, Glenn Lutchins, is going to answer that question |
| 1:45.0 | for us. And then for our culture segment, our friends Joshua Rogers and Suzanne Gosselin, |
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