#21 - Are You Ready for Marriage? | Tim Rarick - a podcast by High Noon

Join Andrew as he interviews Tim Rarick, a professor and a speaker at BYU Idaho, who seeks to make complex ideas simplified. In this episode Tim helps to explain why people struggle with deep emotional issues and how ties can be mended through focusing on being integrity to what we yearn for in relationships.

An introduction of Tim Rarick [0:11]

Who does Tim work with? [3:00]

Is dealing with porn a global issue? [4:30]

What are the main causes of problems for families? [8:20]

What ways can parents help their children inherit healthy intimacy? [10:00]

What do studies and research show about the need for intimacy? [11:30]

How do you solve the real issue and what does Tim compare it to? [14:20]

What are examples of intimacy that have an important impact on society? [16:10]

What are the results of not receiving unconditional love as a child? [19:50]

What do most women who have worked in the porn industry have in common in relation to men? [21:05]

What does Tim recommend doing to deepen your intimacy and to recreate a good script? [23:30]

A good story of change in a woman’s life. [30:05]

Tim sharing on a breakthrough in his own relationship to his son. [35:00]

What is a good way to be prepared for marriage? [38:00]

What are behavioural patterns for healthy relationships? [42:15]

What benefits exist in relational stability? [47:00]

Book tips

Bonds that make us Free, by C. Terry Warner

How to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk, by John Van Epp

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