Boundaries in Dating

How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Relationships

By: Henry Cloud, John Townsend

Narrated by: Jonathan Petersen, Jonathan Peterson

Insights for romance to help you grow in freedom, honesty, and self-control as you pursue healthy dating limits that can lead to a happy marriage.

How do you set smart limits on your physical relationship? How much do you get involved financially? And how do you know if you've found your future spouse? Dating can be fun, but it's not always easy to navigate the questions and intricacies along the way.

In Boundaries in Dating, Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend, counselors and authors of the New York Times bestseller Boundaries, share their practical advice for adding healthy boundaries to your dating life.

Full of insightful, real-life examples, this book will give you the tools you need to:

• Recognize and choose quality over perfection in a dating partner.
• Prioritize friendship within your relationship.
• Preserve friendships by separating between platonic relationships and romantic interest.
• Move past denial to handle real relational problems in a realistic and hopeful way.
• Enjoy this season of life.

Boundaries in Dating unfolds a wise, biblical path to developing self-control, freedom, and intimacy. Let Drs. Cloud and Townsend help you get to know yourself, solve problems, and enjoy the journey of dating and finding your life partner.

This is a must read for anyone dating!!!

Loved this book! opened my eyes, heart, mind and spirit. Needed to stop and take notes a lot, so driving and listening was sometimes difficult. I ended up taking a ton of notes to refer back to. Wish I would have had this book in my younger years. I am learning,g why I am still single at 47 years old. But, its never too late to learn!

Should you “Kiss Dating Goodbye”? Nope!

I will recommend this book to all my maturing dating friends (the immature ones would never read it anyway). I didn’t realize until listening that this book is basically a response to part of the confusion caused by Joshua Harris’s “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” - and how Christian’s for many years took his words of killing off dating as gospel and tried to figure out whatever in the world that mythological ‘courting’ thing was. Sure, dating is a mess in the church because everyone has a different definition - but this book helps set some very mature and wise guidance on why we should date, it’s purpose, and how to navigate a number of very sticky situations we find ourselves in our relationships. It follows the logic that our main job from God is to grow in character and realize that we can’t do it ourselves - we need God and Jesus’s sacrifice. And dating is a fantastic way to grow - because good boundaries are some of the highest ‘relational’ fruit in growing Godly character.

Required Listening

This is a very good book I'd recommend to anyone who is serious about dating. Even though this book is only 16 years old information here is still relevant and applicable. I thoroughly enjoyed the content and Jonathan Petersen did an excellent job in narrating. I did chuckle every time he pronounced the word, "God" ^^

Very good read

Very focused on the beginning of a relationship and how to avoid problems by the use of healthy boundries and personal change. Also how to fix problems as they are arising.

I wish my professor made me read this instead of Lord of The Flies. Absolutely life giving.

This book tore apart the foundation of my understanding of dating and rebuilt it from the ground up.