My not-too-controversial opinion is that pastors and people in our evangelical churches need to improve greatly in how they handle breakups and unrequited love among the single people in our churches. There are a lot of excuses that men and women have for why they break up with dating partners and engagements. My belief is that for some the paths to divorce may start in junior high school with the way that they’ve learned to date. Moreover, there are a lot of simple, compassionate things that can be done to assist single people in dating and when dating relationships and engagements come to an end. And maybe sometimes the better choices that men and women have had for their spouses were people whom they broke up with or did not even consider after they went into marriage that later failed.
In the video I refer to Psalm 147:3 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+147%3A3&version=ESV .
In the video I also refer to the book by Laura Smit, Loves Me, Loves Me Not: The Ethics of Unrequited Love https://www.amazon.com/Loves-Me-Not-Ethics-Unrequited/dp/080102997X/
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