Dating Advice for Young Adults in 2025

Maybe you are a Parent who wants to help your teen or young adult with some tips on dating?
This post provides practical advice for finding a spouse! Please Read and Leave a comment below.

Welcome back to another post everyone!

It has been a difficult time but remain grateful in this time of immense grief. Thank you for all the prayers, we truly appreciate them.

It’s time to begin writing again. I want to use this opportunity to encourage you too, to continue whatever new thing you’ve started this year. Even if you fall off, keep begining again.

I will be sharing a few sentiments about marriage and how to find a husband ( in my humble opinion ).

These three points came to mind and while there are so much more important ones, I trust that these will be practical tips for you.

Any man you choose should:

1. Love God

2. Date to Marry

3. Know what love is/be willing to learn

For a man to love you, he must first love God. It is only through God’s love that he will be able to love you as you ought to be loved.

I would go even further to say that, such a man must not just love God but also serve God- but what does that look like ?

Serving God means more than just going to church (although that is very important too).

Someone who actively gives of himself by helping his family, friends, the poor and those around him is someone who is serving God.

He is practicing his faith by living as Christ taught.

2. Date to Marry

Let us start with what dating is: Dating is an occassion where a man and a woman take part in a social activity together ( nothing intimate happens). This social activity may be: going to dinner, a movie, playing tennis etc.

The purpose of dating is finding someone to marry. If the goal is not to get married then you are wasting your time.

With that in mind, the view entering into dating is going to be different. Your standards ought to be very high because the man you choose will likely be the provider in your family. You will need someone who you can trust to lead.

Also, men usually know from early on who they want to marry. So Let him pursue you. Never chase a man.

Men like challenges and if he really wants you and pursues you in the right way. This translates to a man who is fit to be a leader… Fit to be a husband.

Therefore, if you find yourself pursuing him then he’s probably not interested and that’s okay! Walk away. Actually run away. Nothing is wrong with being friends.

Now, What is love ?

St Thomas Aquinas ( Catholic Theologian) defined Love as an Act of willing the good of the other.

Love is an act of the intellect and the will. Too often, we mistake love for pleasure or a feeling, is it NOT.

Love is…

Being quick to listen

Slow to speak

Bearing each others burdens

Forgiving even when it is hard

Never using harsh words

Serving each other without expecting anything in return

Checking your spririt in moments of anger

Denying the flesh in moments of temptation

Having eyes only for each other

Being self-sacrificial

And I’m sure there are more but this is to say that love is more than just a feeling, it is a choice that you make every single day.

“I love you more than yesterday and not as much as tomorrow” is something someone dear to me says ( maybe you can guess ?) and I hope that you too, if not already, find true love…Godly Love which mirrors Christ’s eternal love.

In summary, build a relationship with someone who you can grow closer to God with. I wish I could say it will be a easy life but surely a happy, healthy and holy life.

Until next week,

Abby