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Today on the show, I get to talk with my friend and one of your favorite humans, Jim Cress. Jim is one of our very favorite therapists around. You probably remember him from our Valentine's episode last year, episode 365.

Truly, I think it is like one of our top three episodes in the history of the podcast. I mean, y'all loved him last year. Me too. We call him the therapist of the pod.

Today, we're diving in to all the questions you sent us after the summer, love and series back in June. Okay, if you haven't listened to that series, this is a great way to do it. Go back, check it out. It is all about how to date healthy in 2023.

But today, we're doing some rapid fire rounds of your questions with Jim. And yes, we are going there. Y'all sent us all kinds of questions about going on dates. How to get a date.

What to do with your sexual desire when you're single and so much more because of the topics we're going to cover. This is one you will probably want to listen to where there aren't many BFF ears around as we literally don't hold back.

Some of these questions, especially revolving around sex, which is the literal second half of the show are things that we wish people, especially Christians would talk about more often. And gosh, I'm so grateful that Jim is helping us address these things head on.

Listen, you may not agree with every single thing we talk about, but my biggest hope is that this episode would spark a conversation with your people that you would call a friend after listening and talk about what you each think.

This is the episode today to hit share, send it to your crew, put it in your group text, drop it in the singles thread, and then say everybody listen in the next two days and let's talk about this.

This is the one we grow together when we first bring things into the light and when we bring other people into it with us. So buckle up y'all. This one runs a little bit long, but it's a holiday.

And we tried to hit as many of your questions as possible, and we have a lot to talk about when it comes to sex and being single.

So here is our summer loving Q&A conversation with our friend and our therapist at the pod, Jim Cress.

Jim Cress, welcome back to that sounds fun.

I'm glad to be here. I had to go through a virtual flight to get here.

It is raining. I've been baptized. I am freshly baptized from top to bottom.

Well, listen, we're about to baptize you in some questions too, because after our summer loving series in June, we opened up the floodgates and said,

okay, what did we not talk about or what did we talk about that you wish we'd have talked more about?

Yeah. And boy, did the questions come in?

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