The idea of commitment may bring up any of a variety of reactions in you: maybe you have it, and are concerned about keeping it; maybe it hasn’t been so great for you in the past. Perhaps you’ve been yearning for a committed relationship, and are fed up with not being able to get it. Or maybe you’ve already stopped reading and are running for the hills! Any way you look at it, commitment can be a complex animal, and there are a number of tools you need to tame it. In this … [Read more...]
Girls ask me Dave how do I know if he’s the one? Well, there are a lot of things you can consider, here are a couple. Number one, do you see sacrifice in this relationship? Is he willing to sacrifice for you? I mean, really. Do you see ways that he goes out of his way to think more about you than himself? That’s key. Secondly, emotional connection. You know the number one reason women today in America get a divorce? It’s a lack of emotional intimacy in a relationship. A … [Read more...]
Video Transcript Couples ask me, how do we know if we should get married? I like to encourage them to look at it from three different angles. First of all, there is the, would you marry you question. What I mean by that is are you the kind of person that’s going to bring relational hell here? Are you going to bring a lot of problems into the relationship? Are you more interested in what you can give to the relationship or what you can take away from it? So, your own personal health … [Read more...]
Video Transcript If you’re at that place where, as a couple, your saying should I propose or should I accept a proposal, and your trying to decide, here are a few factors to consider. Number one, the timing. Look at your life in terms of is it the right time, as a couple, to go ahead and propose to be married. You may consider the financial piece here. It might be, are you in college and do you have the time or is it the right time there, just some other factors like that. Consider … [Read more...]
Video Transcript If you’re at the point that you’re ready to get engaged, here’s my advice, make it special. Do something that both of you are going to remember, something that connects to the two of you. recently I did a wedding for a couple that she loved lighthouses so he, thinking about how he was going to pop the question, decided he was going to build that question or build the popping of it around a lighthouse. So he got online, he researched lighthouses and he found out … [Read more...]
