Before You Get Naked: A Guide to Strong Teen Dating and Young Adult Dating

By James Wegert

"An eye-grabbing title with good advice"Written by a school counselor with years of experience talking with students about their relationship problems, Before You Get Naked communicates important information from a secular perspective about a strong approach to dating that's a healthy wholesome alternative to the devastating weak approach to dating taught to us by the media and our popular culture. In a down-to-earth way, the author explains how to prepare for dating by becoming the type of person that you want to date (a strong person), when and who to date, how to find a strong person to date, how to do dating right, how to decide whether or not to continue in a dating relationship, the difference between the feeling of being "in love" and true love, the dangers of living together, how to decide whether or not to get married, and more. Wegert shares in each of the twenty-four chapters something about dating or something related to dating that he wishes he'd known before dating and during dating - with the hope of helping teens and young adults to avoid a broken heart or worse and to one day have a fulfilling lifelong loving marriage. (The book True Love Lasts, released in 2014, is almost identical to this book except that it includes six pages of dating questions and answers along with a small amount of additional information.) From the authorDear prospective reader, This book was written in order to communicate crucial information that can help people to maximize the possibility that one day they'll find true love and have a lifelong loving marriage. Here's some of the main points that I explain in detail in the book:1. Many teens and young adults start dating before they're ready and use the disastrous weak approach to dating in which dating choices are made mainly based upon liking someone, feelings, and looks. Unfortunately, this approach usually leads to a broken heart 2. A good amount of time and effort needs to be put into preparing yourself for a healthy relationship3. If you prepare yourself for a healthy relationship by learning when, who, and how to date - you're more likely to make good dating choices and have a lifelong loving marriage 4. It's important that you become a strong person before you start dating and that you only date another strong person5. If at all possible, you should try to find a way to get to know someone before dating and you should be very selective about who you decide to date 6. Dating should be a slow process in which you carefully discover what the person you're dating is really like - and whether or not he or she possibly is the person that you want to be married to for the rest of your life7. Many people don't realize that getting the feeling of being "in love" is relatively easy - especially during dating8. Having the feeling of being "in love" makes people ignore danger signs and serious problems in their significant other - problems that could destroy a healthy relationship9. True love is much more than just having the feeling of being "in love" - it's supposed to be a mutual lifelong commitment10. Having the feeling of being "in love" and having true love aren't good enough reasons alone to get married11. Way too many people decide to get married without going through a careful marriage decision making process and they end up getting married too quickly for the wrong reasons - often with unhappiness and divorce as the result 12. Marrying a person who isn't a hard worker almost always is a big mistake13. The first step toward finding a person with whom you could eventually have a lifelong loving marriage is to become the type of person that you want to date - a strong personI hope that you decide to read the book

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615754570
• ISBN13: 9780615754574
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Strong Book Publishing
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"