Boundless show. Well, hey, friends, welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. This is Lisa Anderson

here with you. And as I often like to do, I'm going to give you a little preview of what is coming up.

Of course, you will listen to the whole show as you always do, but I do like to give you a little

preview so you know what to expect. So first up for our inbox, have you ever gotten the

question, why are you still single? Maybe I have, and it's usually at Christmas, like what in the world is up with

people? Anyway, one of our listeners definitely has, and they're wondering, am I trying hard

enough to find someone? Why does everyone keep asking me? Should I try harder? So one of our

counselor friends is going to answer that. And then for our culture segment, Glenn Stanton is back. As many of you know,

he's one of our research analysts here at Focus on the Family and Boundless. And he's going to discuss

a recent study that basically says men tend to fall in love faster than women do. Is that true?

If so, why? What does that mean? Should we care?

You're going to want to stick around for that conversation. Okay, here we are for our roundtable.

We've got some great friends here at the table, John, Chloe, and Tommy. Hey, guys. How's it

gone, Lisa? Hello. Hey. It's great to have you. Okay, so the reason I said

friends is because we're going to talk about friends and friendship. And specifically the idea of a best

friend. Now, I don't know if any of you all have best friends, if you had best friends growing up.

I actually, you're going to need to check out the blog posts that I wrote on what makes a best

friend, because that's kind of a companion to this conversation, where I, of course,

have many opinions on the topic.

And I walk through kind of five reasons that you know you have a friend who's going to go

the distance. And so maybe we'll

bring up a couple of those thoughts here. But let's start out the conversation. Maybe just generally,

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