work on themselves and work through their issues, like you said, from family of origin or trauma or whatever, you know, fears.

Prior sexual activity.

Get some help with that so that you can come into dating, you know, intentional dating relationships and marriage as healed up as possible.

Because when you get married, it only highlights the weak

areas or the hurt areas in our life. It doesn't make them go away. It actually, all of a sudden,

that comes to the forefront and you're dealing with it as a couple instead of just alone.

All right, Mark and Grace of the Real Marriage Podcast. I just feel like we should hold hands for this one.

Okay. I like holding hands. I like holding hands when we drive. the Real Marriage Podcast. I just feel like we should hold hands for this one. Okay.

I like holding hands.

I like holding hands when we drive.

I like holding hands and we go for a walk.

I like holding hands when we worship.

I just like feeling a hand that isn't furry.

I really, it's a ministry to me.

So thank you for sharing.

So we're doing a couple of episodes on questions that people

have sent in. This is from a young couple who is in a single slash engagement phase. Congratulations.

You're headed in the right direction. So first of all, maybe explain the

difference between kind of casual dating and intentional dating and then engagement

and kind of how this is a progression relationally. So we don't totally believe that casual dating is correct dating, I guess you could say,

meeting someone getting to know someone.

Friendship, relationship.

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