Long Term Boyfriend-Girlfriend Relationships
Posted by Dennis on October 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »Posted in: Dating and Courtship, Question and Answer
Do you believe that it is not wise to have a long term of “boyfriend-girlfriend” relationship? What advices you can give to men that is in this season?
I think Paul answered your question. He commanded men to stay pure and holy and one of the challenges of a long term relationship is that the temptations tends to get really hard.
1 Corinthians 7:8-9 8 Now to the unmarriedand the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do. 9 But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
If you can control it, then I see no problem but if the passion is burning, make a game plan already on when to settle down and marry. Pre-marital sex would be a very bad game plan though.
In terms of long term relationships because you are unsure if you are ready, then reassess why you are in a relationship when in the first place you are not ready.
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Dear Ptr. Dennis,
We thank God for this wonderful site. God must be very proud of you!
I have been forwarding the emails to my friends and I asked them to do the same.
Pastor, please write an article about a single lady having a relationship with a married man. My bestfriend who is also childhood friend and a former churchmate, is on that situation right now. She came from devoted family of christians. Even her parents and siblings are active in the church. She has a sister who marries an unbeliever and is now separated from her husband and from her two daughters. She works as a singer to different bars and hotels to support herself and NOW to support her two kids from an affair with a married man.. I don’t want to think that she is most likely to follow her younger sister’s but there is a greater possibility of being one. She is smart, people person and very family- oriented. Physically, she’s pretty, not tall but not short, and chubby. She would always get attention from married men when she is also associates with men from the same age or men few years older than we are. She always tells me that she knows its not right for a christian lady to date a married man but shes like the feeling and she said she loves him.
Anyways, thank you so much.
God bless you and your family.
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