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I’ve noticed that many faithful Catholic singles want to take matrimony really seriously. I’m glad of that. And one of the best ways to take matrimony seriously is to take initial steps in dating much less seriously, especially the act of showing interest. These steps are meant to be light, playful, and organic, and maybe as a result of over-reliance …
Where did you learn to date? If you’re like most people, the world of dating is colored by bits and pieces picked up from TV shows, movies, and stories from friends who are getting their formation from the same places. Here’s the thing about TV romances and romantic comedy movies: they’re not helpful if you want to have a normal, …
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” -Lao Tzu “…So does a journey of a single step.” – Joseph Gruber Of the many questions around the current dating culture, one of the more contentious questions is what a first date is. The spectrum of answers is so wide on the issue, it’s essentially become nonsensical. There’s …
I hope it doesn’t offend to say that there is a lot of confusion out there in the dating world. I’m going to offer a helpful distinction that will ground the two main things to discern in dating for marriage. This distinction is between the two ways we bond with others. There’s a kind of communion that’s based on a …
“Tradition isn’t worshipping the ashes, it’s guarding the flames.” One of my favorite questions to ask college students, back in the day when I was a college-campus-Catholic-missionary, was, “Where did you learn how to date?” The answer, for the first few years of my missionary career, was the 90s Disney show, Boy Meets World. Not a great answer, but not nothing, …
No one, on their wedding day, says that their goal is to wreck their marriage, to utterly sabotage it and undercut it at every turn. No one plans to undermine the very meaning of the sacrament of matrimony. And yet, I daresay many of us unintentionally set ourselves up for failure because we don’t understand the very meaning and purpose of …
There are three basic things that men and women need to believe before dating even becomes sensible. Without these three things, there’s no real way to get from wherever you are to the sacrament of matrimony (which is the end goal of dating). The first thing to be believed is that life is worth living. I don’t mean this in …
