Does Living Together Help or Hurt? - Dr. David Gudgel

Living together before getting married. It’s a common practice today, and most young adults are doing it. So how can you, as a parent, navigate this tough and complicated issue? In this Focus on the Family broadcast, Pastor Dave Gudgel, who has counseled young adults for years, gives you advice and encouragement on promoting God’s design for marriage-with tact, love, and persuasiveness.
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  • @mysterio1570
    @mysterio15706 ай бұрын

    3 of my friends lived with their spouse before marriage and all three are divorced. The other 3 that did not live together are still together and thriving.

  • @stephaniecarsten8715
    @stephaniecarsten87153 жыл бұрын

    I was living with my ex fiance outside of marriage and it was messy.... It was also spiritually breaking. It felt like trying to build a house with broken bricks and no foundation. It was too soon, premature, and a rollercoaster without the breaks.

  • @immasoxfanbaby

    @immasoxfanbaby

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wow what a great testimony bruh

  • @joank.0421
    @joank.04212 жыл бұрын

    I wish I'd have followed this advice in my 20's. I lived with a BF and then my hubby before marriage. Sigh.

  • @majoroldladyakamom6948
    @majoroldladyakamom69483 жыл бұрын

    Boy... if we knew then what we know now... Note my name, lol. Thank you FOTF, for your words of God's wisdom, from your eternal sister in Christ somewhere near Seattle and around the World. ⚘ 🙏❤🙏 ⚘

  • @anitab2398
    @anitab23983 жыл бұрын

    So often senior citizens are faced with this. I know with age wisdom should come but our society makes getting married a financial burden and we make bad decisions based on financial needs. Please address this for seniors

  • @priscillasaravia

    @priscillasaravia

    Жыл бұрын

    So true! I’ve see this. And sometimes they lie to get Medicare benefits as if the other partner isn’t there at all.

  • @brianciofani4698
    @brianciofani46983 жыл бұрын

    This is one of America's worst social experiments. Destroy the family, destroy the nation.

  • @a-a-rondavis9438

    @a-a-rondavis9438

    3 жыл бұрын

    *satan's

  • @debbiewhite9746

    @debbiewhite9746

    3 жыл бұрын

    The frog getting cooked in the tepid water (along with so many other things in our world that Satan is the prince of😣)!

  • @misswinnie4.8

    @misswinnie4.8

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wow, great point.

  • @ambralypurvis2952
    @ambralypurvis2952 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for sharing about this controversial topic.

  • @MrAllysonn
    @MrAllysonn Жыл бұрын

    Mind blowing on these statistics !!

  • @mariamacdonald1007
    @mariamacdonald10073 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for speaking on this topic!

  • @immasoxfanbaby
    @immasoxfanbaby3 жыл бұрын

    Awesome tutorial sir. Thanks for sharing this

  • @claudialsmith2996
    @claudialsmith29963 жыл бұрын

    Number #1. Connected to the phone. Phone home e.t.

  • @cindyhugs767
    @cindyhugs767 Жыл бұрын

    Yes partners r selfish all about me no love just use each other it is danm shame we walk around unloved weren't taught how to love. Messed up families out here no values ppl such n family too. Trust no 👹 one

  • @mysterio1570
    @mysterio15706 ай бұрын

    Why if it’s for a couple of months. Not years.

  • @Faithfullfertilitytv
    @Faithfullfertilitytv Жыл бұрын

    These statistics are mind blowing

  • @MrAllysonn

    @MrAllysonn

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes!

  • @manuelgomez1166
    @manuelgomez11663 жыл бұрын

    Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free?

  • @StormyMonday0896

    @StormyMonday0896

    Жыл бұрын

    don't buy the steer without checking the horn

  • @MrAllysonn

    @MrAllysonn

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly!!!

  • @vinakablue3794
    @vinakablue3794 Жыл бұрын

    Almost everyone I work with have lived together, woman has fallen pregnant and they've gotten married. I don't see the 75% split amongst them.....curious as it is inconsistent with the data

  • @nataliefunk4895
    @nataliefunk48953 жыл бұрын

    What about when you are 50 and not in an intimate relationship with the man you live with?

  • @StormyMonday0896

    @StormyMonday0896

    Жыл бұрын

    move on?

  • @neatstuff1988
    @neatstuff1988 Жыл бұрын

    Honestly I would like to have saved that. But as a man my perspective Mate wanted it more. She would not have Respected my decision Save that for a present to each other.

  • @StormyMonday0896
    @StormyMonday0896 Жыл бұрын

    In one case, living together probably saved me from a lifetime of beatings.

  • @neatstuff1988
    @neatstuff1988 Жыл бұрын

    Almost all people live together before marriage. What I mean is if you sleep with another person you have lived with them. How many people remain pure almost none. Even mormon women don't drink or cough but they sure can do something else. No offense.

  • @neatstuff1988
    @neatstuff1988 Жыл бұрын

    I think James Dobson gets up every morning and throws up With what his creation has become.

  • @edilalewis654
    @edilalewis654 Жыл бұрын

    Marriage is not for everybody marrying a man that is divorce is not marriage either

  • @betglo8151

    @betglo8151

    11 ай бұрын

    So what is it?

  • @kjerit630

    @kjerit630

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@betglo8151 That's true but why pursue the benefits of marrif marrisge is not your thing? Cause whether you agree or not qaqàq🎉

  • @tamiam8877
    @tamiam8877 Жыл бұрын

    What about a pastor allowing a 22 year old young man move into their home with the pastors 16 year old daughter? I say NO! She's 16 😭😭

  • @soniahustad8720

    @soniahustad8720

    4 ай бұрын

    Not all so pastors are Born again christian's, if they were the Holy Spirit would certainly be chastising him