Life will always at some point ask of us to move beyond thinking as a child and childish things

and moving into deeper self-authorship. That is choosing in a world that has more complexity

than we wish it did.

Thank you. more complexity than we wish it did. Before we get started with today's episode, I wanted to share an exciting announcement.

I'm going to be in Alpine, Utah on September 10th, hosting my first ever event specifically for singles.

Click the link in the show notes for details and ticket information.

The response to our recent Q&A, which we're releasing today, was incredibly positive.

And so we've had numerous requests for a live event to dive deeper on the topics of singlehood, navigating sexuality,

dating, and creating better relationships than perhaps the ones we've come out of.

So whether you've never been married, if you're divorced, widowed, I'm going to be having

a grounded conversation on sexuality and chastity as an adult, how to date wisely without repeating old patterns, and what it looks like to use this season as an opportunity for real growth.

So we hope to see you on September 10th, and I hope you enjoy the Q&A.

Thanks, everyone.

Welcome, everybody.

We're really glad to be having this conversation tonight on what it is to be single and some of the challenges that you face as Latter-day Saints confronting a lot of questions around sexuality and being in relationships.

I think Christy proposed doing this, you know, I don't know, maybe a month or two ago, and

we've just had a lot of interests. So I'm not surprised, you know, but the focus of my work has

generally been working with married couples, but a population of the church is progressively

more single, and these are important and hard questions in a church that is focused on chastity

and marriage. So there are way more questions than I have time for tonight, but I think

we will continue to work in this

space and perhaps even create live events and opportunities to learn together and to meet

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