Take a Break From Dating: Episode 813
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
When you need a dating “time out,” plus Q&A with Tovares and Safa Grey, and how to respond when your gay friends ask you to affirm their choices.
Featured musical artist: Jonathan Cain
Roundtable: How to Pause Your Dating Life
Dating can be exciting, but for certain reasons you may need to occasionally take a break. How do you know when a pause is necessary? And how long should it be? Our guests share the benefits they’ve seen in seasons of flying solo, and how to make a break work best for you. Oh, we also talk about how to not over-spiritualize non-dating or use it as an excuse for passive behavior or bitterness.
Culture: Q&A With Tovares and Safa Grey
Our friends Tovares and Safa Grey, founders of Godly Dating 101, have returned — this time in person! They address the most common dating questions they get from followers, the biggest mistakes singles make in waiting for a spouse, and lessons they’ve learned since tying the knot.
Inbox: When a Gay Friend Asks for Affirmation
You have a gay friend who asks for your support of their sexual choices. Amid intense cultural pressure and the desire to love your friend, how do you respond in a God-honoring way? Gender and sexuality analyst Jeff Johnston 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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| 1:01.8 | All right, folks, welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. |
| 1:13.1 | Lisa Anderson here with you. |
| 1:15.1 | And a reminder that we've got some great stuff coming up on this show. |
| 1:19.5 | But do you know that we actually used to have four segments on this show? |
| 1:23.2 | If you haven't heard one of those mystery segments that used to be from back in the day, you can |
| 1:27.8 | hop back to some of our earliest shows and check that out. But in the meantime, here's what's |
| 1:32.6 | coming up this week. For our inbox, we have a listener with some gay friends, and our listener |
| 1:37.6 | is wondering, how can I respond when they ask if I support them? Well, our friend Jeff Johnston, |
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