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I love being married.\u00a0 It has been the most amazing experience, relationship, and adventure of my life.\u00a0 But I have to admit the biggest part, and I do mean the biggest part, of what makes it so great is that I married a great person.<\/p>\n
That having been said, let me speak to those of you who are dating, hope to date, want to get married, engaged, set the date, bought the dress; all of you out there who are about to make the dumbest mistake people make while dating.<\/p>\n
Before I give it to you, let\u2019s just describe what dating is.\u00a0 Dating is getting to know one another to see if you\u2019re compatible.<\/strong> But let\u2019s face it.\u00a0 Dating is more emotional than intellectual.\u00a0 Dating is more about how we feel <\/em>together rather than a fact-gathering excursion.\u00a0 Dating is seeing how we look in our best clothes and at our best behavior.\u00a0 In some ways, let\u2019s be honest, dating isn\u2019t the real world.<\/p>\n It\u2019s no one\u2019s fault.\u00a0 It\u2019s just the nature of the beast.\u00a0 Dating is absolutely essential<\/strong>.\u00a0 So how do you make the most of your time while you\u2019re waiting for mating while dating? Here it is: understand that while you\u2019re dating you need to ask all of the questions that would be important to you after you\u2019re married.<\/p>\n So here it is.\u00a0 The dumbest thing people do while dating is make assumptions.<\/strong> It\u2019s deadly and will come back to bite you later.<\/p>\n How many Christian women haven\u2019t actually asked, \u201cAre you a Christian?\u00a0 What does that mean?\u00a0 How important is it to you?\u201d\u00a0 They just assume.\u00a0 Or they are afraid to ask because maybe the \u201cJesus\u201d word would turn him off and send him away.\u00a0 But listen ladies, if Jesus is important to you now, He\u2019s going to be important to you after you\u2019re married and you need to find out.\u00a0 Assume nothing<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n While you\u2019re dating, you need to ask the hard questions, the probing, penetrating questions.\u00a0 Because after you say, \u201cI do\u201d it\u2019s often too late.<\/p>\n Ask the question about how we\u2019re going to spend money. What about our faith?\u00a0 What church are we going to attend?\u00a0 What do you believe about children?\u00a0 How close can we live to our parents?\u00a0 Do you look at porn and other probing questions that may seem embarrassing, but become really important.\u00a0 You need to ask them earlier rather than later<\/strong> it seems to me.<\/p>\n If there is one gift I can give to my dating brothers and sisters out there, assume nothing.\u00a0 Don\u2019t roll it forward.\u00a0 Ask it now<\/strong>.\u00a0 Right now your feelings will get hurt, but you\u2019ll get over it.\u00a0 Later, it will be divorce court, and it could bankrupt you.\u00a0 At the very least, even if you live with unmet expectations, you\u2019ll be miserable and a great marriage will be beyond your grasp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love being married.\u00a0 It has been the most amazing experience, relationship, and adventure of my life.\u00a0 But I have to admit the biggest part, and I do mean the biggest part, of what makes it so great is that I married a great person. That having been said, let me speak to those of … Continue reading “The Number One Dumbest Thing People Do While Dating”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}