Parents' Responsibility in Dating: Interview with Debra Fileta | Ep. 6
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2016
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Awesome Marriage Podcast we welcome back professional counselor, speaker, and author of True Love Dates, Debra Fileta joining Dr. Kim as they talk about the parent's role when it comes to dating.
Debra is happily married to John and they have two beautiful children, Elijah and Ella. Debra is a licensed professional counselor who specializes in dating, marriage, and relationship issues. She is a writer and regular contributor of Relevant Magazine and Crosswalk.com as well as author of True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life.
RESOURCES
I Am Verses for Parents
True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life is a practical book on dating and a great resource for dating couples or singles preparing to date.
Two other great resources by Debra:
21 Days to Jump Start Your Love Life
21 Days to Pray for Your Love Life
You can hear more great insights from Debra on her blog. You can also follow her on Twitter!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Awesome Marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and how to have the relationship that God has designed for you. |
| 0:10.4 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson, and the admin for Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:15.3 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith. |
| 0:19.7 | Dr. Kim Kim Kim, is the founder of I Want an Awesome Marriage and author of Seven |
| 0:24.9 | Secrets to an Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:27.4 | Mill Smith is the innovation pastor at Community Bible Church in San Antonio, as well as the |
| 0:33.0 | innovation director at Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:35.6 | To engage with the Awesome Marriage podcast, use the hashtag Awesome |
| 0:39.6 | Marriage. Today on the podcast, we welcome back professional counselor, speaker, and author of |
| 0:47.7 | True Love Dates, Deborah Felata. Deborah joins Dr. Kim as they talk about the parents' role when it comes to dating. Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:58.5 | Well, it's another great date, awesome marriage, and it becomes even greater because Deborah is with us today again. |
| 1:04.9 | Welcome back. It's so good to have you again on the awesome marriage podcast. |
| 1:08.8 | Thank you so much. It's great to be here. |
| 1:11.5 | We talked a lot about the church and the role in teaching about dating. |
| 1:14.9 | And so let's start out today and let's just talk about taking that into the home. |
| 1:19.7 | What's the role of the parent in teaching their kids about dating? |
| 1:23.3 | What advice can you give to parents to help them? |
| 1:26.7 | Because it's a daunting process for a lot of |
| 1:29.1 | parents as they face that. It really is. And I think also just the idea of when do we start |
| 1:34.2 | having these conversations and how do we know what to say? And, you know, it might sound odd, |
| 1:40.6 | but to me, teaching on dating begins as early as teaching a child to walk. Because |
| 1:46.8 | inherent to healthy dating, like we talked a little bit about last time, is the idea of having |
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