Dating & Relationships

When staying single isn't easy...

Saving Your Heart by Staying Single

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When I was in eighth grade, I made a commitment: I would be stay single and not participate in the “high school dating game.” I had just broken up with my first real boyfriend and decided that I wanted my next boyfriend to be my future husband. I didn’t want to date several guys in my teen years and only have little to offer my future husband when I met him. I also wanted to do as Song of Solomon 2:7 (MSG) suggests, “Don’t excite love, don’t stir it up, until the time is ripe—and you’re ready.”   This commitment to…

Waiting Isn't Wasted Time

Waiting Time isn’t Wasted Time

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Being single can really feel like the loneliest place in the world. And age doesn’t change that, right? Whether, you’re sixteen and longing for that boy to ask you to the Junior Prom, or twenty-one and hoping for Mr. Blue Eyes to invite you out on a real date…waiting can feel like an eternity. Especially when you’re waiting on that relationship. If that’s you, let me give you a word of encouragement. Your longing to be in a relationship is natural and good. God made you for relationships with others — He’s a relational God, wanting to be connected with…

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When Someone You Love Hurts You

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It can feel like a punch to your stomach.  Your heart breaks into what seems like a thousand little pieces.  It can even make your eyes burn from holding back the tears.  This awful feeling I’m talking about is what can happen when someone we love — or someone we thought loved us — hurts us. Have you ever been hurt by someone you care about? Most of us have or will at some point in our lives.  Some of us have even hurt those we love in this way. So how can we get past the hurt?  How can…

Follow Him

Does a high school romance have any hope for the future?

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It’s the month of love and so we’re taking extra time to answer the dating and relationship questions we often get from teen girls. Below is a second perspective on the topic of planning your future. If you missed the previous answer to this question, you can find it here. I met my first boyfriend at one of my brother’s soccer games. He was a soccer player, too, and I thought he was so cute. We were both 14 years old and freshmen in high school. He took me to the Valentine’s Day dance that year (his mother drove and…

How much should we plan?

Should my boyfriend and I plan our future?

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It’s the month of love and so we’re taking extra time to answer the dating and relationship questions we often get from teen girls. Today, we have the first of two perspectives on the topic of planning your future. Join us later this week for another perspective. When I was 15 I fell in love. My heart was tuned to hear the beats of my beloved. Our bond would never fade. Our future together was set in stone. Except we broke up. And so did my heart. First of all, let me say God had His plan in mind for…

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