The world is full of dating advice – much of which is toxic and damaging to relationships. We approach dating advice from the perspective of Catholic teachings as they relate to the persons and the role that dating and romantic relationships play in our lives as Christians.
In this section, we’ll explore dating advice for first time dates as well as advice for those who are going on their 20th date. More importantly, we’ll look at why relationships sometimes fail and what it takes to make the work.
You’ve met someone that you would like to go on a first date with. Maybe you’ve been communicating for a while on this website, maybe you’ve talked on the phone and you’d like to meet for a cup of coffee. Now it’s time to meet that person in person to see if there is a […]
You finally have this online dating thing down. You log into your dating apps with ease and navigate potential prospects like a pro. But one day you realize that as many people as you’re coming in contact with, not many of them have a lot in common with you. How can you meet like-minded people? […]
Dating experts seem to enjoy coming up with unique and fitting names for every common phenomenon that happens in modern relationships. It’s too bad that ‘being ghosted’ is one the most popularly discussed dating trends. In case you’re late to the dating-trend-name game, ghosting is a term for when one of the two dating people […]
I have a good friend who graduated from a conservative Catholic college with a degree in theology. She immediately began working in ministry positions — youth ministry, women’s ministry, and even at a crisis pregnancy center. Teaching people about chastity, Catholic dating, and how the Church views sex was a huge part of her life. […]
I think the current cultural and political climate in our nation over the past few years (and especially the past few months) illustrates perfectly just how possible it is for good people to disagree on important issues. And a lot of times, I think we tend to fall into the trap of assuming that good […]
We live in a culture obsessed with physical appearance. But the truth is that we can’t all be supermodels, and many of us are less than satisfied with our looks. Sometimes, our physical faults are largely imaginary, a product of our own self-criticalness. And sometimes, those less-than-perfect aspects of our outward appearance are all too […]
From magazine headlines and your favorite televisions series to asking your friend what they did over the weekend, you can begin to think that pretty much everyone is having sex without a wedding ring on their left hand. But even though a majority of people will have sex before their wedding day, that doesn’t mean […]
If you haven’t ever read Dr. Gary Chapman’s book, “The Five Love Languages,” you should. A bestseller (over 10 million copies!), the research Dr. Chapman conducted on the five love languages has radically changed relationships all over the world. In the book, Dr. Chapman explains that every person has a love language that they speak […]
There’s no doubt that we’re living in a culture dominated by casual hook-ups. That being said, don’t lose hope in finding a partner who thinks like you! In most modern relationships, indulgence comes first; pushing sacrifice and commitment to the back-burner. As Catholics, we are called to pursue something higher. That “something” is full and […]
Praying for your partner is important. But praying with your partner also can strengthen your relationship together. According to research, praying together helps couples increase relationship satisfaction. Shared prayer also increases relational commitment and decreases infidelity. In a study entitled “Praying Together and Staying Together: Couple Prayer and Trust,” researchers asked couples to either pray […]
