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]

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]

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]

Wow what a great testimony bruh

[@joank.0421]

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

[@anitab2398]

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

[@priscillavelazquezs]

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]

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

[@a-a-rondavis9438]

*satan's

[@debbiewhite9746]

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]

Wow, great point.

[@majoroldladyakamom6948]

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.
⚘ 🙏❤🙏 ⚘

[@ambralypurvis2952]

Thank you so much for sharing about this controversial topic.

[@MrAllysonn]

Mind blowing on these statistics !!

[@mariamacdonald1007]

Thanks for speaking on this topic!

[@immasoxfanbaby]

Awesome tutorial sir. Thanks for sharing this

[@manuelgomez1166]

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

[@StormyMonday0896]

don't buy the steer without checking the horn

[@MrAllysonn]

Exactly!!!

[@cindyhugs767]

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

[@claudialsmith2996]

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

[@mysterio1570]

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

[@vinakablue3794]

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

[@Faithfullfertilitytv]

These statistics are mind blowing

[@MrAllysonn]

Yes!

[@nataliefunk4895]

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

[@StormyMonday0896]

move on?

[@neatstuff1988]

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]

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

[@neatstuff1988]

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]

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

[@tamiam8877]

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]

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

[@edilalewis654]

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

[@betglo8151]

So what is it?

[@kjerit630]

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