By Michaela Gordoni
Pro athletes and husband and wife Andrew East and Shawn Johnson shared their dating tips on a recent podcast.
“I would just kind of understand like what do you believe God is asking your life to be about?” East said.
“You can start by always asking like how central is faith in your everyday decisions,” Johnson added. “How do you make big decisions? What role does like prayer or church or scripture play in your life?”
This lets you know how a prospective significant other handles hard things.
“Maybe what they say is what they hope they do to cope,” East continued, “and then you’re able to proceed from there and watch and observe how they actually cope, and then there’s like interesting information kind of that you’re gathering there. Some people are like let me distract myself away from it…Some people get really emotionally distraught, and it’s like more heightened in that sense, and they’re very free with that.”
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It’s also important to ask questions about family and how the view it.
In terms of family, Johnson says you should ask, “What would you do differently? That’s always very eye opening. It can show pain points, things that might have triggers to them or trauma or just differences of beliefs even.”
“There’s certain things of like, ‘Oh my dad, he was a professional athlete. So he was on the road. He was a baseball player. He was never home because he was he was playing 160 games a year.’ …There’s just little bits of information that come,” East said.
It’s important to see how the other person tends to handle disappointment and handle conflict.
Johnson said to ask things like, “How did your parents argue? Did they argue? What does conflict usually look like for you?”
DUCKY DYNASTY’s Sadie Robertson Huff and her husband Christian Huff have also shared dating advice.
“Once you become a strong believer in Christ…you realize the goal of marriage should be to glorify God and to do what the Lord has called us to, to become one flesh and be fruitful and multiply and to do this life together,” Sadie explained. “It’s not so much about being picky…but I do have high standards in the things that matter.”
She added, “The standards have to be high when it comes to authenticity, when it comes to honesty, integrity, godliness. Those are things you want your standards to be high in, because those things really matter.”
Another time, she said if she could, she would tell her younger self to be patient and wait.
“If I’d tried to ‘find’ Christian, I genuinely don’t know if I would’ve found him because I wouldn’t have been looking where he was. I never would’ve thought my husband would be in Seaside, FL, the day I happened to be there on vacation with my friends. I’m so grateful we found each other, but the fact is that we didn’t have to search,” she said.
It’s a serious matter when you intertwine your life with someone else’s. So, make sure you ask the right questions and wait for the right time.
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