Reviews for I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance

The average rating for I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-09-28 00:00:00 Mimi Shkalim It's weird. When I read this for the first and only time, I had just parted ways with a high school girlfriend. Our relationship had been the most intense I'd ever had, and while we were in it, we were both pretty positive that this was real and fervent love. She's now happily married to a great guy who isn't me, and I'm now happily married to an amazing woman who isn't her. I'm not proud of how it ended, but it needed to. This book fell into the midst of that dynamic in my life, and it rocked me. Not date girls casually as a means to get to know them, and instead enjoy healthy friendships, one day implementing the idea of courting a girl whom you were led to by the Lord? At the time, amazing! In many ways, I needed this book then. It helped to focus me, and remind me of the importance and necessity of my heart's need for Christ first and foremost, before all things and before all others. Would I still recommend it? Would I tell someone else that "You should read this in order to know how God wants us to deal with dating, relationships, and the whole nine yards?" It's doubtful. It helped me, but it also contributed to and suggested a rigidity of interaction and relationship that eventually had to be cast aside in order for me to develop relationship and fall in love with the woman who would become my life. This book is one of a number of different books that I'd suggest reading (if you insist on reading it) with a constant consideration of its contents as "idea" and "suggestion", whether or not it says "this is what you have to do". Very real problems tend to arise when Christians hammer things down and define them with no wiggle room for mystery, change, trust, and guidance by the Holy Spirit.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-03-13 00:00:00 Jane Goldman I am a 17 year old christian teenage girl who has lived her relationship life according to this book and has no regrets. I have healthy friendships with a lot of guys but--amazingly enough--not a single boyfriend. And my life has been just fine for it. Actually, my life has been great. The whole point of the book is that there is a season for everything: a season for investing in friendships, and a season for dating/courting for the purpose of marriage. This has worked just fine for all the people around me (most singles in my church don't practice dating either), and there has been no lack of wonderful marriages. I don't date, but that doesn't mean I've thrown away marriage. I'm just using my time to serve God instead of committing my heart to a boyfriend right now. (Which is the whole point of the book). It is actually a fun book, and very easy to read. Josh is not condemning, but he does let people know that there are other options out there besides dating.