Talk To Me: The Debra Fileta Podcast

How do you know you've healed from the past? Welcome to SEASON 5 of the Love + Relationships Podcast!! I'm so excited about this new look, and these brand new episodes! Healed From the Past? We all know the past can be paralyzing. It can wrap it's deadly tentacles around your life and keep you from moving forward. But it doesn't have to. When you deal with the past, you can be freed from the past. Do you have a past relationship history, that you've wondered if you've fully healed from? Today's caller is wondering that same thing, and wants to know how to know she's healed from the past. I'm talking her through three things to keep in mind in taking inventory of whether or not she's healed from the past. Whether your past relationship history includes a break up, divorce, or just some hard things you've been through, give this episode a listen! Tune in this brand new episode of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Get matched with a counselor within 24 hours!!!! Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! You're going to be so glad you did! Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When it comes to dating, should a woman initiate? You guys know what I think about this topic (it-s a non-issue, and it doesn't matter who initiates as long as the relationship is made of give-and-take thereafter), but I decided to ask my friend, Chad Johnson, to give me his male-perspective on the issue in Part 2 of our conversation. Should a Woman Initiate? Let me just warn you, things go down in this podcast - because Chad and I certainly don't agree on everything, and I even call him out on some of his perspectives. We talk about should a woman initiate, what to do about getting ghosted, and so may other great topics. So tune in this brand new episode of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What on earth does a godly man really want in a woman? I mean, do godly men even exist these days?!? Welcome to SEASON 5 of the Love + Relationships Podcast!! I'm so excited about this new look, and these brand new episodes! Today's caller wants to know, what is up with the godly man saying he wants a woman of character, and then chasing after the supermodel woman?? It's a loaded question, friends...but at the same time, it's worth answering. What A Godly Man Wants Is this mentality true? And if not, why do so many women struggle with this question? Why do so many guys seem to have double standards with what they really want in a woman. So, I invited my friend, Chad Johnson, a single man who says he's not perfect - but loves the Lord, to talk me through exactly what is going on in a man's brain - and what it is that a godly man REALLY want in a woman. Chad and I had so much fun talking in this episode, that I invited him back next week as well. Let me warn you, we don't always agree, but we had a lot of fun chatting along the way. You're going to love this conversation on what a godly man wants...so tune in this brand new episode of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Connect with our Sponsors at https://www.smaywilsonshop.com/ and modernfertility.com.debra Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: Want more: Check out this article What Men Really Want In a Woman For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's caller wants to know if there's such a thing as good jealousy in a relationship vs. unhealthy jealousy - and if so, how do you know the difference? Welcome to SEASON 5 of the Love + Relationships Podcast!! I'm so excited about this new look, and these brand new episodes! Dealing With Jealousy in a Relationship If you've ever struggled with jealousy in a relationship, then you don't want to miss this episode because I'm talking through: What jealousy is. Two reasons why you might be feeling it. How to know if there's an underlying problem in the relationship. How to know if the underlying problem is something inside of you. How to deal with jealousy in the relationship. Tune in this brand new episode of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Connect with our Sponsor at https://www.smaywilsonshop.com/ Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if I told you that your identity is one of the number one things that impacts the quality of your relationships? Welcome to SEASON 5 of the Love + Relationships Podcast!! I'm so excited about this new look, and these brand new episodes! Because what you believe about yourself determines the kind of relationship you believe you deserve. But so many things can get in the way of what we believe about ourselves. Christine Caine knows that first hand. In today's episode, Christine and I talk about the importance of taking inventory of our identity, and what that looks like practically. Identity Matters In today's episode we discuss: How trauma and past experiences can impact our identity. The labels we carry through life that impact our identity. Her personal story of adoption and abuse and how it impacted what she believed about herself. The psychology and theology behind identity and what shapes it. What it looks like to replace the lies about who we are with God's truth. Understanding your identity in Christ. Verses that will shape your identity with truth (see below in the resources) And so much more!! If you've EVER struggled with identity issues, or maybe you're struggling today - I can't express to you how important this episode is. Tune in this brand new episode of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Get matched with a counselor within 24 hours!!!! Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! You're going to be so glad you did! Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: Scriptures Debra and Christine recommend to build your identity with truth: 2 Corinthians 5:17 Ephesians 2:10 1 Peter 2:8 Genesis 1:27 Romans 8:1 2 Corinthians 5:21 Galatians 2:20 2 Timothy 1:7 Philippians 4:13 Romans 12:2 Ephesians 4:24 Psalm 139:14 Romans 8:37 Jeremiah 1:5 Read 100 More Verses About Identity Christine Caine is an Australian born, Greek blooded, lover of Jesus, activist, author and international speaker. She and her husband, Nick, founded the global anti-human trafficking organization, The A21 Campaign. They also founded Propel Women, an organization designed to activate women to fulfill their God-given passion, purpose, and potential. Christine and Nick make their home in southern California with their daughters, Catherine and Sophia. For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to SEASON 5 of the Love + Relationships Podcast!! I'm so excited about this new look, and these brand new episodes! The past year of the podcast has brought listeners from all across the country and world, and our very first caller is Terry from Fiji! Terry and his girlfriend are committed to saving sex for marriage, and he wants to know some practical suggestions and tips for physical boundaries. Practical Physical Boundaries In today's episode we'll talk through: Practical ways you can set physical boundaries - some suggestions that actually work! Why acting "overly spiritual" can actually hinder your desire to save sex for marriage. The importance of communicating your boundaries before-hand. How to re-frame your perspective so that you see saving sex for marriage as an investment in the relationship vs. a barrier to the relationship. This is why you're going to love Terry and the conversation we have about physical boundaries and saving sex in this very first episode of Season 5 of the Love + Relationships Podcast. Tune in this brand new episode of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Meet our Sponsor: Want kids someday? Modern Fertility will give you insight into how many eggs you have, hormone levels, and any reproductive red flags. The results go in-depth into what every hormone means and you can also talk 1:1 with a fertility nurse to review your results and options for next steps. Get $20 off TODAY by going to: https://modernfertility.com/debra/ Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We've been taking the last few weeks here at the Love + Relationships Podcast to highlight the TOP 5 MOST DOWNLOADED EPISODES! Whether you need to re-listen to this episode, or you've never heard it before, I know it will challenge and encourage you as it has for so many others! Coming in at #1 most downloaded episode of all time... How much does physical attraction matter in a relationship? What if you know someone is really good for you, but you don't find yourself attracted to them at all? What if there's strong attraction, but qualities and traits missing from what you're looking for? What if you're married, and start struggling with physical attraction in your marriage? Questions about physical attraction are some of the most frequently asked questions I get on my blog. Because physical attraction is, without a doubt, an important part of a relationship. But have we gotten to a point where our expectations of physical attraction in a relationship are unrealistic? My Mind Says Yes - My Body Says No? In today's episode, I'm having a candid chat about physical attraction with two different guys. First, I'm talking with a young man who is trying to understand how important physical attraction should be in his search for love. I find out that his relationship history has a big part to do with his expectations, and you'll find out why when you tune in. After our conversation, I bring on my good friend and prolific relationship author, Gary Thomas. Gary and I dive into some really hot topics about attraction in ways that not many people are talking about, and you're going to love this candid conversation. Physical Attraction 101 In this hot-topic episode, we cover: 2 IMPORTANT Questions you need to ask yourself to know whether or not you've got a healthy understanding of physical attraction. The actual definition of attraction and why it matters that you know it. We discuss the many different levels of attraction and how attraction is multi-faceted. How to prioritize the importance of physical attraction. Understanding your typical "type" and when to be open to other options. Exploring the things that are influencing your perspective of beauty and physical attraction, and how to control those things. Learning whether or not you're living in "the extremes" and whether or not you have healthy expectations. Making sure you have a realistic understanding of who YOU are and your own level of "physical attraction" in the equation of what you're looking for (yep, I said it). The percentage of people who are struggling with attraction in marriage and what to do about it! Three things you can do to increase your attraction to your spouse. I reveal the one thing I was MOST AFRAID to talk about regarding physical attraction in my book Choosing Marriage. The one prayer Gary Thomas prayed in order to continue growing in life long physical attraction toward his wife! Single, dating, or married this show has something for you. You're going to love these candid conversations, so grab your notebook, and get ready to write down the nuggets of truth from this fun, honest, and challenging Episode 009 of the Love + Relationships Podcast. SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Friends! Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Get matched with a counselor within 24 hours!!!! Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! You're going to be so glad you did! Love + Relationships Podcast Extras: For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Biblical Dating: Camels, Arranged Marriage, and Starbucks. 10 Girls You Shouldn't Date: How To Avoid Heartbreak 10 Guys You Shouldn't Date: How To...

We're taking the next few weeks here at the Love + Relationships Podcast to highlight the TOP 5 MOST DOWNLOADED EPISODES! Whether you need to re-listen to this episode, or you've never heard it before, I know it will challenge and encourage you as it has for so many others! Coming in at #2..... There's a lot of casual dating going on these days...and it's starting to get confusing. Is it okay to date casually? And if so, is there a limit to how casual you should be when interacting with the opposite sex. Today's question comes from a young woman who is struggling with the latest trend of casual dating where a guy can hang out with as many girls as he wants (or vice versa) in the name of "casual dating". Casual Dating Can't Stay Casual The problem is that people tend to think in two extremes. Either they are way too casual and keep the relationship ambiguous and commitment free for FAR too long, or they're on the other end of the spectrum in which they see dating as a near marriage commitment. They're unwilling to consider anything casual and they expect a relationship to start seriously from the get-go. But BOTH of these mentalities can be harmful, and in this episode of the podcast we talk through the ins and outs of how to do "casual dating" in a healthy way, and the red flags you need to be aware of along the way. I'm going to bring up a few important questions you need to ask yourself if you want to know how to do causal dating well. So click the buttons below to subscribe and check out Episode 37 of the Love + Relationships Podcast to learn about causal dating! Want to be on the Love + Relationships Podcast? Go to truelovedates.com/loveandrelationships/ to submit your question and learn more. SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Friends! Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Get matched with a counselor within 24 hours!!!! Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! You're going to be so glad you did! Love + Relationships Podcast Extras: For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Biblical Dating: Camels, Arranged Marriage, and Starbucks. 10 Girls You Shouldn't Date: How To Avoid Heartbreak 10 Guys You Shouldn't Date: How To Avoid The Bad Boys BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. (Debra's New Book: Love In Every Season Order Today!) And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book a session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're taking the next few weeks here at the Love + Relationships Podcast to highlight the TOP 5 MOST DOWNLOADED EPISODES! Whether you need to re-listen to this episode, or you've never heard it before, I know it will challenge and encourage you as it has for so many others! Coming in at #3..... What do I do with my raging sex drive while I'm single? I get that question a lot. But the problem is: not too many Christians are teaching about this subject. I can't recall when I heard a sermon about sexual struggles on a Sunday morning, can you? But dealing with your sex drive is a problem that singles have to face on a regular basis....one that will ultimately have an impact on their future marriages as well, because learning to "tame the drive" is something you're going to deal with after you're married as well. So I thought it was about time to do an episode about sex drive and singleness. LET'S TALK ABOUT...THE SEX DRIVE When we talk about sex on the podcast, everyone gets excited...no pun intended. So, without further to do, click the links below to listen this insightful (and at times, awkward) conversation, as I answer today's caller who is wondering how on earth can he deal with "the sex drive" - as he puts it - while he waits for marriage. In this episode I cover: Why your sex drive (annoying as it may be at times while you're single) is actually a good thing. Why the sex for marriage sentiment is actually backed up by psychology. The dangerous power of premarital sex. Why your sex drive is actually a symptom of something ELSE going on. The #1 way to stop having shame about your sex drive. How to fuel the spirit and starve the flesh, and what that means for your sex life. Some practical ways to control your sex drive while you're single. Identifying things you are doing that might be growing your sex drive instead of controlling your sex drive. Why learning to control your sex drive is something you'll need after you're married as well. And a whole...lot...more! You're going to love this candid conversation so get ready to for this necessary, honest, and insightful Episode 011 of the Love + Relationships Podcast. SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Friends! Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Get matched with a counselor within 24 hours!!!! Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! You're going to be so glad you did! Love + Relationships Podcast Extras: For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Biblical Dating: Camels, Arranged Marriage, and Starbucks. 10 Girls You Shouldn't Date: How To Avoid Heartbreak 10 Guys You Shouldn't Date: How To Avoid The Bad Boys BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. (Debra's New Book: Love In Every Season Order Today!) And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book a session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're taking the next few weeks here at the Love + Relationships Podcast to highlight the TOP 5 MOST DOWNLOADED EPISODES! Whether you need to re-listen to this episode, or you've never heard it before, I know it will challenge and encourage you as it has for so many others! Coming in at #4..... [Want to be on the Love + Relationships Podcast? Email [email protected] with your voice memo question and you might be featured on Season 5!] Q: What does healthy dating look like and what are the key ingredients to a healthy dating relationship? A: Today's question comes from Kim in Ohio, who is wondering what healthy dating actually looks like...is it even a thing? If you know anything about me and this ministry, you know that my main message is that healthy people make healthy relationships. But how do you know that your relationship is healthy? What are some things to be on the lookout for when it comes to your interactions with the opposite sex? Healthy Dating Is A Thing On today's episode, we're talking through this question and the belief that healthy dating is a real thing!! It IS POSSIBLE to date in a way that leaves you with no regrets - even in today's chaotic culture of relationships. Joining me to answer this question today, is Pastor Ben Stuart from Passion City Church in DC and formerly served as the director of BreakAway Ministries. Ben's work with young adults and his heart for this topic made him a perfect candidate to tag-team this question with me today. In this episode, we talk through: Why is dating such a struggle for Christians? How to look at dating in a way that takes the pressure off. The THEME verse that should define the way we do dating. What are some of the key ingredients that make healthy dating a possibility. The three Cs of dating. Why mutual interest and initiation is SO important. Why charm is deceptive... And so much more!!! Don't miss this great conversation! Click the buttons below to subscribe and check out Episode 42 of the Love + Relationships Podcast! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Friends! Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Get matched with a counselor within 24 hours!!!! Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! You're going to be so glad you did! Love + Relationships Podcast Extras: For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Biblical Dating: Camels, Arranged Marriage, and Starbucks. 10 Girls You Shouldn't Date: How To Avoid Heartbreak 10 Guys You Shouldn't Date: How To Avoid The Bad Boys Connect with Ben Stuart on Instagram or check out his book: Single, Dating, Engaged, Married. For more information check out Passion City Church, DC. OTHER BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. (Debra's New Book: Love In Every Season Order Today!) And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book a session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're taking the next 5 weeks here at the Love + Relationships Podcast to highlight the TOP 5 MOST DOWNLOADED EPISODES! Whether you need to relisten to this episode, or you've never heard it before, I know it will challenge and encourage you as it has for so many others! Coming in at #5..... How far is too far when it comes to physical touch before marriage? I'm sure you're not shocked to hear that it's one of the most frequently asked questions I receive at my relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com. How far is too far? On today's mini-episode (18 minutes!) I'm answering just that! In this quick episode, I'm offering some practical, bite-sized advice for anyone who has ever wondered where to draw the line with physical touch before marriage. I'm going to talk you through the 12 stages of physical touch and explain to you when I believe physical touch goes from the green zone, to the yellow zone, to the red zone. If you've ever wondered how far is too far to go physically in a dating relationship, you're going to want to tune in to Episode 014 of the Love + Relationships Podcast, where we talk candidly about all things love, sex, dating, singleness and marriage. SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Friends! Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Get matched with a counselor within 24 hours!!!! Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! You're going to be so glad you did! Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Q: We're struggling through the reality check of marriage. It's not always as easy as we imagined it to be. Do you have any tips or advice for us? I often talk about the differences between our expectations of marriage , vs. the reality of what marriage. But today, I'm excited to tag team this question about the reality check of marriage with my friends Jeremy and Addie Camp. Jeremy Camp and Addie are so real and raw about their own marriage, the struggles they've been through, and the victories they've had. In this episode we talk about the reality check of marriage in their own lives, as well as practical things they do to keep their connection strong and nurture their relationship. It's packed with encouragement and practical advice, and I know it will encourage you whether you're married or one day hoping to be. Tune in to Episode 77 of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Friends! Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Get matched with a counselor within 24 hours!!!! Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! You're going to be so glad you did! Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: Check out Jeremy and Adrienne's new book: In Unison For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some of the most prominent people in ministry and leadership are dealing with anxiety, you just don't know about it. The reason is that anxiety doesn't discriminate. It doesn't care about how old you are, what religion you are, or your gender. But unfortunately, not enough people of faith are talking about dealing with anxiety in an open and honest way, and so many people end up struggling alone and in isolation. That's why I'm excited about today's conversation. You guys have heard me talk about my personal journey dealing with anxiety, but today I've invited my friend Ashley Willis, who has walked through her own battle with anxiety. She's so open and honest about her journey, and how she found peace...and I know this episode will encourage you if you've ever struggled with anxiety as well. Tune in to Episode 76 of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Friends! Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Get matched with a counselor within 24 hours!!!! Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! You're going to be so glad you did! Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: Check out Ashley Willis' new book: Peace Pirates For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When today's question came in on the Love + Relationships Hotline asking about tips and tricks to managing the early years of marriage, I had to get my friends Ryan and Selena Frederick to join me in tag-teaming this one. Ryan and Selena run an amazing ministry called Fierce Marriage, and they are passionate about honoring God through the ministry of marriage. Today we talk through what it looks like to get through those early years of marriage and come out stronger on the other side. They open their heart in talking about confession, vulnerability, and intimacy in marriage through all areas of their life, and we spend some time talking about how they dealt with the intruder of pornography in their relationship. This episode will encourage and inspire you in your current marriage, and help you dream about your future marriage. Tune in to Episode 75 of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Friends! Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Get matched with a counselor within 24 hours!!!! Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! You're going to be so glad you did! Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: Check out Ryan and Selena's new book: See Through Marriage. For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're talking about walking through unbelievably hard times. Whether you're walking through hard times right now, with all that's going on in our country, or maybe you're walking through the hard times of heartbreak, or loss, or grief...whatever it is, today's episode is for you. Jennie and Levi Lusko lost their precious little girl, Lenya, suddenly and unexpectedly at the young age of five years old. Today, I talk with Jennie about this heart aching story, and the reality of walking through hard times, and how she personally navigated that time in her life while continuing to hold on to Jesus. Her words are encouraging, and inspiring, and will help you see that flourishing in life doesn't come naturally - it's something we have to FIGHT for. If you've ever walked through hard times, this episode is for you. Tune in to Episode 74 of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Friends! Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Get matched with a counselor within 24 hours!!!! Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! You're going to be so glad you did! Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: Check out Jennie's new book: The Fight To Flourish! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's question is about finding hope after heartbreak. I'm joined by my new friend, Ben Courson, a young pastor and leader who specializes in sharing the message of hope, and who has dealt with his fair share of heartbreak. This conversation with Ben is going to encourage and inspire you as we talk about: Ways to practically deal with heart break and move forward. The concept of soul ties, what we think about it and what you need to know about spiritual and emotional intimacy. How long before you start dating again after a heartbreak. What happens when you think God tells you they are the one and then they end up breaking your heart? How to deal with the pain of when an ex starts dating someone else, and so much more! If you've ever had a broken heart, this episode is for you. Tune in to Episode 73 of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Friends! Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Get matched with a counselor within 24 hours!!!! Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! You're going to be so glad you did! Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: FROM TODAY'S EPISODE: ORDER DEBRA'S NEWEST BOOK! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you feel like you're struggling with singleness? I know that the struggle can be heightened during this season of life, especially with all that's going on in the nation in light of Covid 19. Social distancing, quarantine, sheltering in place can make you feel even more lonely and disconnected than ever before. But struggling with singleness does not make you strange, or crazy, or lacking in faith. It makes you human. I got a question from a listener asking for tips and advice on how to deal with loneliness and anxiety during this time, and I brought my good friend - the one and only Mandisa, to help me tackle this question! Mandisa is a an incredible woman of God on the journey of singleness...and I know that having her help me address and answer this question will bless you beyond belief! So tune in to Episode 72 of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: FROM TODAY'S EPISODE: ORDER DEBRA'S NEWEST BOOK! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Play hard to get. If you're in the world of dating, or were at some point in your life - you've definitely heard the relationship advice that tells you to play hard to get. Don't look too interested. Don't call for at least 3 days. Make sure they don't know how much you like them. Don't text back right away. But is this relationship advice any good? Play Hard To Get There's a reason why this is common relationship advice. We want to play the game of relationships, and make ourselves feel like we're in control rather than feeling like someone is in control of us. But there are two major problems that the "play hard to get" mentality creates in relationships. Today on the podcast, I'm explaining both of those problems and why this is actually BAD relationship advice, and what you should do instead. Don't be fooled by the play hard to get game...because you're going to end up losing in the end. Tune in to Episode 71 of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: FROM TODAY'S EPISODE: ORDER DEBRA'S NEWEST BOOK! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marriage should make you happy. That's the relationship advice we hear all the time. But is it even true? How much weight do we need to put on our happiness? What is the secret ingredient to creating happiness in marriage? Does happiness create a good marriage, or does a good marriage create happiness? And what happens when you're not happy? Is it even realistic to say we're going to be happy all the time in marriage? We need to take the time to evaluate this relationship advice, and make sure we're questioning it and seeing it for what it's worth. Marriage Should Make You Happy - or Should It? Today, my friend, pastor, and bestselling author of Sacred Marriage, Gary Thomas, helps me tackle this important bad relationship advice, because it's advice that's hurting many marriages. We're going to take a look at both scripture and psychology and get to the root of this bad relationship advice, and offer you a BETTER perspective - a perspective that helps us look at holiness before we look at happiness. Tune in to Episode 70 of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: FROM TODAY'S EPISODE: ORDER DEBRA'S NEWEST BOOK! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You'll "just know" When You Meet The Right Person...that's what they try and tell you. "You lock eyes, as you glance across the room at each other. And all of a sudden, somehow, you just know." The worst relationship advice I've ever heard comes from the people who tell you you'll just know when you meet the person you're going to marry. It's a cookie cutter formula that can't - and shouldn't - be applied to all relationships. It's caused a lot of confusion along the way, and caused many people to pass up very good relationships because they were expecting some sort of an intense feeling or instant knowledge when the right person came along. You'll Just Know? In today's episode I share my personal experience with this bad relationship advice (because I TOTALLY DID NOT JUST KNOW!!!) and then I offer a counter perspective to help you navigate this important area of your life, because there ARE some important things to look for in looking for love...but it doesn't just happen at first glance. Tune in to Episode 69 of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: FROM TODAY'S EPISODE: ORDER DEBRA'S NEWEST BOOK! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When it comes to relationships, have you ever heard the phrase, "women should not initiate"? This is all too common advice, and unfortunately, it's advice that comes with a lot of controversy as well as negative repercussion. So should women initiate? And what does that look like in dating, as well as in marriage? The bad relationship advice series continues at TrueLoveDates.com by unpacking this relationship advice and why it can actually wreak havoc on your relationship in the long run. Should Women Initiate? I'm joined by my friend and author, Phylicia Masonheimer, as we tag-team this important subject. Both Phylicia and I heard and applied this bad relationship advice that women should not initiate at different points in our lives, and in this episode we each unpack how it impacted our respective marriages, discuss why we think this is bad advice, and then offer you a healthier alternative to relationships. If you're a woman who has ever wondered about a woman initiating in a relationship, or if you're a man who has ever had questions about this topic, you don't want to miss this candid episode that's not only grounded in psychology, but in biblical truth. Tune in to Episode 68 of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: More on this subject: Leadership, Submission & Headship with Tim + Anne (podcast) 3 Ways To Show Him You're Interested (article) Can a Woman Make The First Move (podcast) 4 Reasons It's Okay For a Woman to Initiate a Relationship ORDER DEBRA'S NEWEST BOOK today! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're continuing our bad relationship advice series with the bad relationship advice that says, "A happy wife makes a happy life". I can't even tell you how many times I've heard this bad relationship advice. It's advice that has been used as one of the most common approaches in relationships. But why is this bad relationship advice, and what advice is actually BETTER when it comes to how we approach marriage? Happy Wife Makes A Happy Life? This short, 5-minute episode will offer you a counter perspective to this common advice, and challenge you to see things differently when it comes to marriage and relationships. In this short episode, we cover: Why this is bad advice. Talk about how this advice encourages passivity. What happens when we follow this advice and why it forms one-sided relationships. How to approach marriage from a healthier perspective. Learning to adapt a mutual model in marriage. The BETTER formula to apply instead of Happy Wife = Happy Life I hope this episode encourages you and challenges you to say no to this bad relationship advice! Tune in to Episode 67 of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Get professional counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! UPCOMING WAYS TO CONNECT AT TrueLoveDates.com: April 17th: FREEDOM FROM TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS GROUP FOR WOMEN April 21st: COMMUNICATION & CONNECTION - AN ONLINE SEMINAR FOR EVERY RELATIONSHIP STATUS April 25th: TLD SINGLES MIXER FOR PEOPLE IN THEIR 20S Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: ORDER DEBRA'S NEWEST BOOK today! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I've heard from so many singles over the past few weeks who are struggling and looking for some encouragement as they navigate this time of social distancing and quarantine. So I invited my single friend, Lisa Anderson, to join me as we discuss ways to thrive during this hard time. Lisa is the director of the young adults ministry of Focus on the Family called Boundless, and she is a single woman who I consider as one who is THRIVING in what God has called her to do. In this important episode, we cover: How to deal with the isolation that comes during this time. What to practically do with your unmet need for physical touch. Why accountability is important during this time. How to infuse meaning and purpose during this time. How to get your emotional needs met right now. And so many other amazing tips, advice, and encouragement for singles! If you're single, or know someone who is, I invite you to tune in to this bonus episode of the Love + Relationships Podcast, and ask God to open your heart to what He is doing around you and through you during this time. Tune in to today's episode of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Get professional counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! UPCOMING WAYS TO CONNECT AT TrueLoveDates.com: April 17th: FREEDOM FROM TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS GROUP FOR WOMEN April 21st: COMMUNICATION & CONNECTION - AN ONLINE SEMINAR FOR EVERY RELATIONSHIP STATUS April 25th: TLD SINGLES MIXER FOR PEOPLE IN THEIR 20S Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: ORDER DEBRA'S NEWEST BOOK today! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"You just need to wait on God to bring you a relationship." If you're single, there's a good chance you've heard that advice at some point along the way. The problem is that what it means to "wait on God" often get's misinterpreted into meaning that you should DO NOTHING. Too many singles are on the side of the spectrum of passivity when it comes to their relationships, because they have been taught that waiting on God means you do less and trust God more. In today's episode, I'm unpacking why I think this is "bad advice" and what waiting on God should look and feel like when it comes to our romantic relationships. How do you wait on God, yet still continue to pursue your heart's desire for relationships? Is waiting a God an action, or a place of the heart? That's what we're talking about today!! I love this episode so much, and especially because I'm joined by my friend Kait Warman, an amazing woman with a heart for singles and healthy dating, and who is currently living the single life!! I know this episode will challenge and encourage you, so be sure to tune in! Also, after you listen to this episode, make sure to check out our upcoming singles mixer for people in their 20s! It's an incredible way to connect with eligible singles from the comfort of your own home. I just hosted one for people in their 30s and it was such a huge success. Click the link above to read what everyone said about our time together. Tune in to Episode 66 of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: ORDER DEBRA'S NEWEST BOOK today! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Married couples need a weekly date night out...you've heard that advice before, but is it good advice? The answer might surprise you!! We're starting the bad relationship advice series here at TrueLoveDates.com!!! In this series, I'm bringing you all the BAD relationship advice that you've heard over the years, and maybe you even thought it was GOOD advice, but it's advice that's actually harmful and even ruining relationships. The first bad relationship advice we're starting with is so APPLICABLE for today!! I recorded this episode LONG before Corona Quarantine, and here we are, stuck at home, unable to go anywhere even if we WANT TO. Date night out is impossible!! So what do we do? DATE NIGHT IN NOT DATE NIGHT OUT The relationship advice that "couples need a weekly date night out" isn't just unlikely right now, it's impossible. If the health of our marriage hinged on our weekly date nights out, we'd be done for right now....and so would marriages across the country. We can't actually go on a date night out right now anyway, but we can do something even better for our marriage - we can go IN. Healthy marriages don't hinge on going out, but on going IN. Connecting with one another on a deep and meaningful way. In today's episode I'm going to tell you what it means to "go in" in your relationship. Also, after you listen to this episode, make sure to tune in to 10 Date Night In Ideas....hopefully they inspire you to take the time to go in with your relationship! Tune in to Episode 65 of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: Today's episode came straight out of Love In Every Season! ORDER DEBRA'S NEW BOOK today! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's a higher potential for conflict in relationships when everyone is together all the time. Can I get an amen? I've been hearing from many people who are struggling with the conflict coming up in the relationships during this time of quarantine. "We're gettin' on each other's nerves! Help!" Quarantine Conflict! Today's episode is all about managing conflict. Whether major conflict, or minor conflict - I'm giving you 7 steps you need to remember in every conflict you face, in order to go into it as well as come out of it with a better outcome and a healthier relationship. Tune in to Quarantine Episode #5 of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: Today's episode came straight out of Love In Every Season! ORDER DEBRA'S NEW BOOK today! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are toxic people everywhere. In churches, schools, at work, and sometimes right in the middle of your own household. And it's important to understand that fact because relationships have the power to bring life, or death. They have the power to lift you up, or bring you down. Right now in our country, the word "social distancing" is being used very liberally to help set boundaries with our physical space, decreasing our chances of getting the Corona Virus. But what if we were to use this time to take inventory of all our relationships, and which ones we need to continue investing in, as well as which ones we need to set boundaries with? Because one day, the Corona Virus pandemic will slow down, and we will go back to life as usual. We've got to make choices about who we allow into our life and who we don't. So let me remind you: some toxic people are worthy of social distancing, whether we're in quarantine or not. Toxic People Today on the podcast, I'm joined by my friend and pastor/author Gary Thomas. In today's episode we're sharing: What defines a toxic person? What does the bible say about setting boundaries with toxic people? How did Jesus model walking away from toxic people? What are some practical ways we can set boundaries with toxic people? Tune in to Quarantine Episode #4 of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: Do you want to commit to Praying For Your Love Life? If so, you're going to love 21 Days to Pray For Your Love Life Devotional and Prayer Journal. It's a 21 Day Course walking you through 21 days of SPECIFIC and MEANINGFUL prayers for love. Join thousands of other singles who have gone through this course and are committed to praying for love! Use code LOVE for 20% off any program. Is your relationship Healthy? Find out! ORDER DEBRA'S NEW BOOK: Love In Every Season! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's been a lot of talk about hand washing lately, as the CDC continually reminds us of the importance of washing our hands during a pandemic. We're a hand washing family, and we always emphasize hand washing whether or not there's a national crisis. But with all the talk about hand washing lately, it's no surprise that as I was reading through the book of Mark recently, the chapter on hand washing stood out to me like never before. Hand + Heart Washing Jesus and his disciplines were confronted by the religious leaders of the time and criticized for their lack of ceremonial hand washing. Jesus' response to those leaders was so powerful, and so applicable to today. So I'm calling today's episode Hand Washing and Heart Washing, and I hope you'll take a minute to tune into this perspective on ways that we can focus in on spiritual cleansing during this time where our tendency is just to focus on physical cleanliness. Tune in to Quarantine Episode #3 of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: Do you want to commit to Praying For Your Love Life? If so, you're going to love 21 Days to Pray For Your Love Life Devotional and Prayer Journal. It's a 21 Day Course walking you through 21 days of SPECIFIC and MEANINGFUL prayers for love. Join thousands of other singles who have gone through this course and are committed to praying for love! Use code LOVE for 20% off any program. Is your relationship Healthy? Find out! ORDER DEBRA'S NEW BOOK: Love In Every Season! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the blog, I released an article called 10 Quarantine Self Care Tips for Mental and Emotional Health, and today on the podcast I'm reviewing and expanding the second part of this 2 part podcast series, covering the last 5 tips in Part 2 of the Self Care Tips, as well as how they've played out in my personal life this week. In this episode I cover: The importance of making time for fun and why it matters in times of crisis. Some ways you can learn and grow during quarantine. How, why and when you should include counseling as part of your journey. The healing power of empathy. And why all the cookie-cutter advice you're getting about what your daily schedule should look like might actually be wrong for you!! So tune in to Listen to Part 1 of Quarantine Self Care Tips For Mental and Emotional Health, Click HERE. Quarantine Self Care Tips 6-10 To tune in to Quarantine Episode #2 of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the buton below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: Do you want to commit to Praying For Your Love Life? If so, you're going to love 21 Days to Pray For Your Love Life Devotional and Prayer Journal. It's a 21 Day Course walking you through 21 days of SPECIFIC and MEANINGFUL prayers for love. Join thousands of other singles who have gone through this course and are committed to praying for love! Use code LOVE for 20% off any program. Is your relationship Healthy? Find out! ORDER DEBRA'S NEW BOOK: Love In Every Season! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While we're all on Corona Quarantine right now, and since our world has come to a halt for a period of time, I wanted to adjust the Love and Relationships Podcast this week. Instead of the usual hotline style show, I'm going to be focusing on advice and encouragement to help you navigate this season in the best way possible. This week on the podcast, I released an article called 10 Quarantine Self Care Tips for Mental and Emotional Health, and today on the podcast I'm reviewing and expanding on the first 5 points as well as how they've played out in my personal life this week. So tune in to Quarantine Episode #1 of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the buton below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: Do you want to commit to Praying For Your Love Life? If so, you're going to love 21 Days to Pray For Your Love Life Devotional and Prayer Journal. It's a 21 Day Course walking you through 21 days of SPECIFIC and MEANINGFUL prayers for love. Join thousands of other singles who have gone through this course and are committed to praying for love! Use code LOVE for 20% off any program. Is your relationship Healthy? Find out! ORDER DEBRA'S NEW BOOK: Love In Every Season! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you thinking about taking a break in a relationship? Is it possible to take a break from a relationship and get back together in a healthy way? Last week on the Love + Relationships podcast we talked about the On Again Off Again Relationship, and what to be on the lookout for in that kind of relationship. Today we're continuing the conversation by talking about taking a break in a relationship, and how to do it in a way that's actually beneficial for both parties. Taking A Break In A Relationship 101 If you're thinking about taking a break in a relationship, there are some things you need to do in order to make sure the break is beneficial and well-used. Like I said in the last episode: You can't just hit the pause button and expect the story to change. You've actually got to change the whole story. Find out how taking a break in a relationship can be done in a healthy way, by tuning in 64 of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the podcast below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: MEET OUR SPONSOR: Check out Abide, the #1 Christian meditation app, by going to: abide.co/love and get 25% off your premium subscription! Do you want to commit to Praying For Your Love Life? If so, you're going to love 21 Days to Pray For Your Love Life Devotional and Prayer Journal. It's a 21 Day Course walking you through 21 days of SPECIFIC and MEANINGFUL prayers for love. Join thousands of other singles who have gone through this course and are committed to praying for love! Is your relationship Healthy? Find out! ORDER DEBRA'S NEW BOOK: Love In Every Season! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year!!! Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do you do when you find yourself in an on again off again relationship? Do you end it, or do you continue on the roller coaster ride of trying to make things work? Is it worth it to try and take a break in a relationship, and what does it say about the outcome of a relationship if you have to take a break? In today's podcast episode, I'm talking you through what I think about this kind of up and down relationship, and how to navigate through it. If you find yourself in a relationship with someone where you are needing to "take a break" to sort through things and figure things out - than this episode is for you! Taking a Break When it comes to taking a break in a relationship, you have to remember why it is you're taking a break as well as have a plan of what you're trying to resolve. Tune in to today's episode and find out what to do in the on again off again relationship. So check out episode 63 of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the podcast below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: MEET OUR SPONSOR: Check out Abide, the #1 Christian meditation app, by going to: abide.co/love and get 25% off your premium subscription! Do you want to commit to Praying For Your Love Life? If so, you're going to love 21 Days to Pray For Your Love Life Devotional and Prayer Journal. It's a 21 Day Course walking you through 21 days of SPECIFIC and MEANINGFUL prayers for love. Join thousands of other singles who have gone through this course and are committed to praying for love! Is your relationship Healthy? Find out! ORDER DEBRA'S NEW BOOK: Love In Every Season! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year!!! Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do you pray for love? And what if you don't even have one yet? Should you still pray for love even before you have a relationship? If I knew the effect that my future relationships would have on my life, I would have been praying for love since pre-school. Prayer is the act by which we hand over our needs to the One who actually has the power to impact those needs. So how do you pray for love? Where do you even begin? Whether you're praying for your future spouse, or future dating relationship, I want to offer you some really specific ways to pray for love. 8 Ways To Pray For Love Today on the podcast, we're talking about eight ways to pray for love, even before you have a romantic relationships! There are prayers, powerful, specific, prayers that will impact your heart! I know this episode will encourage you, and remind you of the importance of praying for your love life long before you have one. So check out episode 62 of the Love + Relationships Podcast to learn eight ways to pray for your love life. SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: MEET OUR SPONSOR: Check out Abide, the #1 Christian meditation app, by going to: abide.co/love and get 25% off your premium subscription! Do you want to commit to Praying For Your Love Life? If so, you're going to love 21 Days to Pray For Your Love Life Devotional and Prayer Journal. It's a 21 Day Course walking you through 21 days of SPECIFIC and MEANINGFUL prayers for love. Join thousands of other singles who have gone through this course and are committed to praying for love! Is your relationship Healthy? Find out! ORDER DEBRA'S NEW BOOK: Love In Every Season! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year!!! Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book a session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you looking for places to meet Christian singles? Why am I even asking - you must be. Because you're here. Reading this article. And you're in the right place!! At TrueLoveDates.com (the #1 Faith-based relationship advice blog!) I surveyed thousands of people asking them WHERE they were meeting Christian singles...and today I'm sharing the Top 10 places to meet Christian singles. 10 Places To Meet Christian Singles...actually 11 including this: And make sure to listen to the VERY end...because I have a very practical #11 place - an opportunity for you to meet Christian Singles at our upcoming SINGLES MIXERS! You're going to be encouraged by this episode, and reminded that yes, Christian singles DO exists, and there are places to meet Christian singles no matter where you live. So check out episode 61 of the Love + Relationships Podcast all about places to meet Christian singles! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: Is your relationship Healthy? Find out! ORDER DEBRA'S NEW BOOK: Love In Every Season! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year!!! Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book a session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you ever wonder if your marriage needs help? If so, you're not alone. The natural trajectory of marriage is drift. The pressure and stress of life can slowly begin to pull people away from one another... If you're not careful, things can slowly start to drift in you relationship without you ever realizing it's happening. With a lack of time to connect, crazy schedules, the fast pace of life, financial struggles, the distraction of raising children... There are so many things that can get in the way of a strong connection between two people in marriage. And if we're not careful we can find our marriage in a place we never intended it to be. So how do you recognize if your marriage has drifted to the point where it needs help? And what can you do about it? 12 Sings Your Marriage Needs Help Today we're talking about 12 signs to be on the lookout for, signaling that your marriage is in need of some attention; in need of some help. Take a few minutes to listen to this quick episode, and start taking inventory of whether or not your relationship is in a healthy place. Click below to check out Episode 60 of Love + Relationships and find out if your marriage needs help! SIDENOTE: In case you don't already know this - I offer relationship sessions via Skype every single week. As a licensed counselor, I love setting aside this time to help you focus on your relationship, and make it the best it can be. You can book a session with me at this link. But if you're looking for ongoing counseling to work on your marriage or other mental health issues, consider booking a session with Faithful Counseling, an online counseling opportunity that matches you with a licensed counselor who is ALSO a Christian!! Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: Is your relationship Healthy? Find out! ORDER DEBRA'S NEW BOOK: Love In Every Season! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year!!! Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book a session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SURPRISE!!! Bonus Valentines Day podcast episode today!!! It's Valentine's Day, and I just had to release an extra Valentines Day podcast episode for you. This question comes in time and time again...so I decided to tackle it in today's podcast! It's an episode that will mean something to you no matter what your relationship status, and is something I encourage you to take the time to do AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!!! What is this, you ask? I'm going to keep it a mystery. But go listen to this short bonus episode and start the process of what I say is the KEY TO EVERY HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP!!! Enjoy Bonus Episode 59!! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: Is your relationship Healthy? Find out! ORDER DEBRA'S NEW BOOK: Love In Every Season! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year!!! Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book a session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do you avoid Valentines Day Disappointment? You know, that terrible let down feeling when the day just doesn't go how you hoped it would to go? That seems to be the question of the hour with Valentines Day looming just around the corner. People approach Valentines Day with a range of love/hate feelings for this occasion to celebrate love. How To Avoid Valentines Day Disappointment (Don't Do What I DID!!) In today's episode, I want to talk to you about three ways you can avoid Valentines Day disappointment whether you're single, dating, or married. I promise you, these tips are going to help and encourage you to make the absolute most of this week! I'm starting the episode with telling you about my WORST Valentines Day ever, and how I did the exact opposite of the advice I'm about to give you today about Valentines Day disappointment. You live and learn! I can't wait to share this episode with you, and I hope it encourages and instills you with new perspective as you approach Valentines Day this week. PS. ATTENTION ALL SINGLES OUT THERE...I want to invite you to join us this Wednesday night for our ONLINE SINGLES EVENT! Click here or the photo below for details...we only have a few tickets left, so register today! A practical way to avoid Valentines Day disappointment! Subscribe on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts, and then tune in to Episode 58 of the Love + Relationship Podcast. SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: Is your relationship Healthy? Find out! ORDER DEBRA'S NEW BOOK: Love In Every Season! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY? MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book a session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should I marry him? Today's caller is having some doubts in the relationship she's in. She's not sure if she should just fight through, or if she should just walk away. When do you know that the doubts you're facing are normal doubts, and when do you recognize that there's something going on that might be a signal that you need to walk away from this relationships? In Love In Every Season, I explain that sometimes the problem is in YOU - and sometimes, the problem is in the relationship. It's important not to simply ignore these doubts, but instead see them as a signal that something needs to change. Should I Marry Him/Her? 5 Signs You Shouldn't Get Married In today's episode, we're talking through 5 signs that you need to step back from the relationship, and instead, take some time to deal with what is going on from the inside out. If you find yourself wondering "should I marry him/her?" then this episode is for you. If you're not dating yet, I challenge you to tune in and recognize these signs so that you don't find yourself struggling in this type of situation. Subscribe on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts, and then tune in to Episode 57 of the Love + Relationship Podcast. SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: Is your relationship Healthy? Find out! ORDER DEBRA'S NEW BOOK: Love In Every Season! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY? MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book a session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're in the thick of Winter, here in Pennsylvania. And there's a lot we can learn from this season when it comes to relationships. Every season of a relationship comes with important ingredients that can make or break your relationship. If you aren't aware of what the seasons bring, you won't be able to USE them to strengthen your relationship. Today we're talking about the season of Winter. It's the season when things begin to cool off, and emotions begin to die down. It can be a season when people struggle with apathy in their relationship and feel like they're stuck. There's a type of frost that happens in relationships as well, it's the frost of apathy. The Frost of Apathy in a Relationship Winter has some really important aspects that we need. It's a season of comfort and familiarity. It's a season of getting used to the mundane, and making the most of day to day life - because romance isn't just about the grand gestures, it's about the regular moments of life. But sometimes, this comfort can turn into apathy. Winter is a season that you pass through, not stay in. Seasons aren't meant to be stayed in, they're meant to be passed through. We've got to be able to take the right steps in Winter, or we'll end up getting stuck in a relationship that has frozen over. Tune in to today's episode as we talk about the frost of apathy in a relationship, and why it's one of the most dangerous aspect of winter. We'll also talk about HOW to get over the frost of apathy in a relationships, and three steps we can take to begin melting that frost as we continue our discussion on the four seasons of every healthy relationship, from my brand new book, Love In Every Season! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: ORDER DEBRA'S NEW BOOK: Love In Every Season! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY? MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book a session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're talking questions to ask your partner, because we often assume instead of ask...and end up with some major conflict. When it comes to relationships, things aren't always as they appear. Every relationship goes through a season where they navigate through the realization that the person they're with has flaws, failures, and sometimes - major issues. True colors begin to shine through, and sometimes those colors are beautiful, but sometimes, they're not so beautiful. This, my friends, is the season of fall. Fall is when your true colors start to shine through: your sins, struggles, failures and flaws. You realize you're two different people with different expectations, needs, personalities, and most significantly - different backgrounds, family of origins, and ways of looking at the world. Questions To Ask Your Partner - Not Assume All the things you ASSUMED about this person, are revealed and replaced by the TRUTH of who this person actually is. In order to really understand a person in their entirety, we've got to learn to ask more than we assume. So today we're talking about specific areas you need to ASK and not ASSUME when it comes to learning about the person you're with. Today on the podcast we're talking about this aspect of the season of fall and addressing questions to ask your partner, as we continue our discussion on the four seasons of every healthy relationship, from my brand new book, Love In Every Season! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: ORDER DEBRA'S NEW BOOK: Love In Every Season! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast & TLD articles check out: How To Find a Good Match: Compatibility In a Relationship Healthy Dating Looks Like This: A Conversation With Ben Stuart Boundaries with the Opposite Sex: A Conversation with My Husband My Husband Does Not Have The Final Say In Our Marriage (article) MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book a session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Summer is the season of intimacy, and it's when things get hot in a relationship. I can't wait to share all about Summer in today's podcast episode, but I just want to share with you that my new book, Love In Every Season, officially launched TODAY!!! You can get a copy anywhere you get your books. There's so much I wanted to share with you on these episodes of the podcast, but of course the majority of the information on each of these seasons will be found in the pages of this new book! Check out the official Love In Every Season book page for more details and to read the reviews! Intentional Intimacy Summer is the season of intimacy because it's the stage in your relationship when you begin shedding your layers and exposing your true self. You get to know each other deeply and intimately. But you have to be intentional about intimacy! The main aspects you need to learn to navigate in summer are emotional connection, sexual attraction, and the bond of spiritual intimacy. Today we're focusing on the latter, and why how you navigate spiritual intimacy can make or break your relationship. Click the buttons below to subscribe and check out Episode 54 of the Love + Relationships Podcast! Want to be on the Love + Relationships Podcast? Go to truelovedates.com/loveandrelationships/ to submit your question and learn more. SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: ORDER DEBRA'S NEW BOOK: Love In Every Season! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast & TLD articles check out: How To Find a Good Match: Compatibility In a Relationship Healthy Dating Looks Like This: A Conversation With Ben Stuart Boundaries with the Opposite Sex: A Conversation with My Husband My Husband Does Not Have The Final Say In Our Marriage (article) MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book a session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are just ONE WEEK away from the release of my new book, Love In Every Season. So today's question couldn't have come at a better time. We're digging deep into the four seasons of a relationship starting with the season of Spring! Spring is the season of growth, it's the season when attraction is blossoming and emotions are blooming. It's the season of planting the right seeds and taking out the weeds. While there's so much I could cover in the season of Spring (becoming friends before lovers, the four laws of attraction, redefining our "type", planting the right seeds, etc - and I cover it ALL in Love In Every Season), today's podcast episode is going to focus on one specific dynamic of Spring: growth. Is your relationship growing? What does it mean to be in a give-and-take relationship, and why does it matter? Relationships have to grow in order to survive. If you're not seeing characteristics of growth in your relationship - something is wrong. Click the buttons below to subscribe and check out Episode 53 of the Love + Relationships Podcast! Want to be on the Love + Relationships Podcast? Go to truelovedates.com/loveandrelationships/ to submit your question and learn more. SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: ORDER DEBRA'S NEW BOOK: Love In Every Season! Get a FREE DIGITAL COPY TODAY by JOINING THE Love In Every Season Launch Team! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast & TLD articles check out: How To Find a Good Match: Compatibility In a Relationship Healthy Dating Looks Like This: A Conversation With Ben Stuart Boundaries with the Opposite Sex: A Conversation with My Husband My Husband Does Not Have The Final Say In Our Marriage (article) BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. (Debra's New Book: Love In Every Season Coming January 2020, Pre-Order Today!) And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book a session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you want better relationships in 2020? Because that is absolutely possible!! It's time to do things better this coming year, and expect better things! Especially when it comes to our relationships. Because the quality of your relationships impacts the quality of your life! Tune into this extra special New Years Eve Podcast episode for some hope, encouragement, and motivation to make better, healthier, stronger relationships this coming year - and why it's so important to know where you're going in order to find someone who can join you on that journey. Click the buttons below to subscribe and check out Episode 52 of the Love + Relationships Podcast! Want to be on the Love + Relationships Podcast? Go to truelovedates.com/loveandrelationships/ to submit your question and learn more. SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: ORDER DEBRA'S NEW BOOK: Love In Every Season! Get a FREE DIGITAL COPY TODAY by JOINING THE Love In Every Season Launch Team! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast & TLD articles check out: How To Find a Good Match: Compatibility In a Relationship Healthy Dating Looks Like This: A Conversation With Ben Stuart Boundaries with the Opposite Sex: A Conversation with My Husband My Husband Does Not Have The Final Say In Our Marriage (article) BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. (Debra's New Book: Love In Every Season Coming January 2020, Pre-Order Today!) And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book a session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Q: What advice do you have on dating someone who is divorced? Dating someone who is divorced is a topic that has come up more and more over the years. With the age of divorce getting younger, and the number of divorces getting higher over the years - it makes sense that dating someone who is divorced is a topic that keeps coming back around during my question and answer time. I have clients, friends, and family members who are divorced, and with that in mind, I wanted to make sure to answer this question in a way that honored the person who was asking the question - as well as respected those who have been divorced. Stance vs. Status: Dating Someone Who Is Divorced If you've read my blog or books, or listened to my podcast, at some point you've heard me say that in any relationship where there is conflict - there are always two people involved which means two people who need to take ownership of their role in that conflict. Divorce is no exception to that rule. If we want to establish healthy relationships, we all have something to own in the process of building them. So my answer focuses a lot more on the stance of the person you're dating, rather than their relationship status. You'll understand more about what I mean by this when you tune in to today's episode about Dating Someone Who Is Divorced! Click the buttons below to subscribe and check out Episode 51 of the Love + Relationships Podcast! Want to be on the Love + Relationships Podcast? Go to truelovedates.com/loveandrelationships/ to submit your question and learn more. SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: ORDER DEBRA'S NEW BOOK: Love In Every Season! Get a FREE DIGITAL COPY TODAY by JOINING THE Love In Every Season Launch Team! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast & TLD articles check out: How To Find a Good Match: Compatibility In a Relationship Healthy Dating Looks Like This: A Conversation With Ben Stuart Boundaries with the Opposite Sex: A Conversation with My Husband My Husband Does Not Have The Final Say In Our Marriage (article) BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. (Debra's New Book: Love In Every Season Coming January 2020, Pre-Order Today!) And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book a session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on the podcast, my friends Tim + Anne join me to talk about headship in marriage. If you've ever wrestled with the concept of leadership, submission, or headship in marriage than you don't want to miss this episode. I have LOVED Tim + Anne's biblical approach to marriage, and their views and ideas have put into words in a way that no one else has, the way that John and I do marriage. We're a team...and we do life together. Together: Co-Leadership In Marriage I invited Tim + Anne to join me today on the Love + Relationships podcast to talk about their views on marriage and their approach to "co-leadership" in their relationship. Not only are they a wise couple, but they're a couple who loves God and one another, and it's evidenced in how they live out their life. I hope you'll give this episode a listen and go in with an open mind about this concept of "co-leadership" in marriage. It's not the traditional approach, but there's certainly a lot to learn from their biblical view of marriage. Click the buttons below to subscribe and check out Episode 50 of the Love + Relationships Podcast! Want to be on the Love + Relationships Podcast? Go to truelovedates.com/loveandrelationships/ to submit your question and learn more. SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: ORDER DEBRA'S NEW BOOK: Love In Every Season! Get a FREE DIGITAL COPY TODAY by JOINING THE Love In Every Season Launch Team! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast & TLD articles check out: How To Find a Good Match: Compatibility In a Relationship Healthy Dating Looks Like This: A Conversation With Ben Stuart Boundaries with the Opposite Sex: A Conversation with My Husband My Husband Does Not Have The Final Say In Our Marriage (article) BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. (Debra's New Book: Love In Every Season Coming January 2020, Pre-Order Today!) And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book a session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Looking for some good get to know you questions? What are some questions to ask when you're trying to get to know someone of the opposite sex? Today's podcast episode is a fast and furious trip through 15 questions you can ask as you're starting the process of getting to know someone and wanting to learn how to break the ice. I hear from so many people how difficult it can be to break the ice when you're trying to interact with someone of the opposite sex, and I hope these questions will be helpful to get the conversation started!! ORDER DEBRA'S NEW BOOK: Love In Every Season! Get a FREE DIGITAL COPY TODAY by JOINING THE Love In Every Season Launch Team! Click the buttons below to subscribe and check out Episode 49 of the Love + Relationships Podcast all about get to know you questions! Want to be on the Love + Relationships Podcast? Go to truelovedates.com/loveandrelationships/ to submit your question and learn more. SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Love + Relationships Podcast Extras: For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: How To Find a Good Match: Compatibility In a Relationship Healthy Dating Looks Like This: A Conversation With Ben Stuart Boundaries with the Opposite Sex: A Conversation with My Husband BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. (Debra's New Book: Love In Every Season Coming January 2020, Pre-Order Today!) And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book a session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last week we talked about some things a woman can do to show a man she's interested in him. Today we're hitting up the flip side for the man who asks: what are some ways I can show her interest? Is there anything I can do to let her know that I'm into her? I surveyed women of all ages, and the consensus was the same. And today, we're revealing what they said on this brand new episode of the podcast! Click the buttons below to subscribe and check out Episode 48 of the Love + Relationships Podcast! Want to be on the Love + Relationships Podcast? Go to truelovedates.com/loveandrelationships/ to submit your question and learn more. SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Love + Relationships Podcast Extras: For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: How To Find a Good Match: Compatibility In a Relationship Healthy Dating Looks Like This: A Conversation With Ben Stuart Boundaries with the Opposite Sex: A Conversation with My Husband BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. (Debra's New Book: Love In Every Season Coming January 2020, Pre-Order Today!) And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book a session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm always getting asked by women what they can do to show interest in a man without being too obvious or seeming desperate. Today's episode I'm talking you through THREE things the men said a woman can do to show him she's interested in him! I interviewed and surveyed all kinds of men to get you these answers, and they're so much more simple than you would imagine. Showing interest is something that often looks a little different too each gender, so next week- we're covering the flip side! Click the buttons below to subscribe and check out Episode 47 of the Love + Relationships Podcast! Have a relationship question for me? Want to be on the Love + Relationships Podcast? Go to truelovedates.com/loveandrelationships/ to submit your question and learn more. SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Love + Relationships Podcast Extras: For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: How To Find a Good Match: Compatibility In a Relationship Healthy Dating Looks Like This: A Conversation With Ben Stuart Boundaries with the Opposite Sex: A Conversation with My Husband BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. (Debra's New Book: Love In Every Season Coming January 2020, Pre-Order Today!) And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book a session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is it possible to fall in love with the wrong person, or is falling in love the ultimate goal? What is that feeling that we call "falling in love" and is it possible to choose someone based on pure emotion rather than choosing someone who is a good match for our lives? And then what happens if you feel like you've fallen in love with the wrong person? Falling in Love With the Wrong Person Today I'm giving you my opinion about falling in love and whether or not it's possible to fall in love with the wrong person and how we can navigate our way around this topic of falling in love! Click the buttons below to subscribe and check out Episode 46 of the Love + Relationships Podcast! Want to be on the Love + Relationships Podcast? Go to truelovedates.com/loveandrelationships/ to submit your question and learn more. SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Love + Relationships Podcast Extras: For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: How To Find a Good Match: Compatibility In a Relationship Healthy Dating Looks Like This: A Conversation With Ben Stuart Boundaries with the Opposite Sex: A Conversation with My Husband BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. (Debra's New Book: Love In Every Season Coming January 2020, Pre-Order Today!) And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book a session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're talking toxic relationships both in dating and in marriage. Q: When it comes to general relationships, how do you know when a relationship is worth working on, and how do you know when it's time to walk away? A: When it is time to walk away from an unhealthy relationship? That's a question we're diving in to today. Christians tend to really struggle with the idea of walking away from relationships, even when they get to a place where they're harmful or even dangerous. I'm joined by my friend and bestselling author, Gary Thomas, to tag-team this question today because he just finished writing all about toxic relationships, and it's a conversation we need to bring to the surface. Toxic Relationships In today's episode we're covering: Why is it actually biblical for us to walk away from toxic relationships? What are some key motivators to remember when it comes to making the choice to walk away from a toxic relationship? How do we recognize a relationship that's hurting us? How to handle toxic relationships in dating as well as in marriage. And so much more! Click the buttons below to subscribe and check out Episode 45 of the Love + Relationships Podcast! Want to be on the Love + Relationships Podcast? Go to truelovedates.com/loveandrelationships/ to submit your question and learn more. SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Love + Relationships Podcast Extras: For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Top 10 Relationship Killers. Small Things That Cause Big Problems. Is There Such A Thing As "The One"? And Why My Husband And I Disagree. OTHER BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. (Debra's New Book: Love In Every Season Coming January 2020, Pre-Order Today!) And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book a session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices