What Defines Your Relationship?
Focus on Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Dating methods have changed, but the principles that make for a great marriage still stand. Erin Smalley discusses how dating is different since she and Greg were in the dating scene. Then, Jim Daly talks with social media influencers, Tovares and Safa Grey, about about how single adults can be a good marriage candidate.
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| 0:00.0 | Not to date myself, but before the invention of the internet, the way most of us went about dating was to meet somebody face to face and then go out. |
| 0:15.0 | Things have changed, but the principles for a strong marriage are all still the same. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm John Fuller joined by Aaron and Greg Smalley. They lead the Focus Marriage Department and Aaron, we both have kids who are of marrying age. If I couldn't put it that way, what are some of the differences that you're observing between how things are now and maybe 20 30 even 40 years ago? |
| 0:38.0 | And John the internet has changed everything you know you think about dating sites to both of my |
| 0:45.0 | daughters actually met their husbands on a dating site and it's |
| 0:50.3 | interesting because they are so well matched and granted I know that's not for everybody |
| 0:57.1 | but that is definitely very different than what it was like when we were all going out and dates. The other thing with technology, they |
| 1:05.8 | are constantly in contact. And so they're texting, they're face timing, so they're always in contact when they're dating now versus for us |
| 1:16.6 | we had to send letters we had to I mean email came around eventually but |
| 1:21.0 | it's just very different yeah Yeah and we're going to hear now from |
| 1:25.1 | Tavares and Safa Gray they started a very popular Instagram account called |
| 1:29.6 | Godly Dating 101 and they shared some of their story with |
| 1:33.4 | focused president Jim Daly. Well welcome to both of you. |
| 1:36.5 | Glad to have you. Thank you for having us on. Yeah this is exciting. Now you guys are |
| 1:40.2 | married. How long have you been married? December makes seven years. |
| 1:44.0 | Seven years. Okay so you're not too far back there when you were doing this whole |
| 1:47.6 | thing and dating and trying to figure it all out. Talk to me about the difference. |
| 1:52.2 | I mean your moms and dads must have had that |
| 1:55.2 | experience like John and I had. You know it was pretty singular, linear. You see |
| 2:00.5 | somebody you like at church maybe and you ask him out for coffee never dinner first John just FY I |
| 2:06.0 | Something subtle little talking to and then boy you go oh maybe this is the one and you start dating a little bit and enthusiasm grows. |
| 2:14.9 | Speak to how dating is occurring today. |
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