Boundaries in Dating: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Relationships

He looks at us all as broken people whom he makes new again. With his forgiveness, you can start all over and be as clean as when you began.

The best boundary that you can have in your dating life is to begin every relationship with an eye toward friendship. Do not rush into any kind of romance. Keep your boundaries, physically, emotionally, and otherwise.

Where there is deception there is no relationship.

Boundaries help you be yourself, instead of losing yourself in someone else.

In a chapter about honesty, it is really important to remember that you will have a good relationship to the degree that you are able to be clear and honest about everything.

This type of loneliness is a chronic, longstanding sense of emptiness in life, no matter what the circumstances. The person can be around many loving, caring people, and still feel isolated. She may either feel that others don’t care, or that she is unable to receive what they give. This loneliness is an indication that something is broken in one’s

Just like a drug addict is not growing when he or she is using drugs, your soul is not growing if you are acting out lust.

Truthfulness is everything. While essential in the therapeutic relationship, honesty is the bedrock of dating and marriage as well.

“Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked. . . . But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers” (Psalm 1:1–3).