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Dating and Desire Podcast

Dating and Desire Podcast

De : Bridgett Blood and Lauren Mathues
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 The Dating & Desire Podcast is a Christian dating and sexuality podcast for singles and dating adults who want more than rules or fear-based answers. Hosted by relationship coaches Bridgett Blood and Lauren Mathues, the show explores Christian dating, sexual desire, emotional safety, boundaries, and integrity. Through honest conversations with pastors, therapists, and relationship experts, we help you navigate physical boundaries and sexual formation with faith and self-trust. Because your desire is holy, your body is good, and your story matters.Bridgett Blood and Lauren Mathues Christianisme Ministère et évangélisme Spiritualité
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  • EP.16 Good Friends and Full Honesty will Level Up Your Dating Life with Jamie Haigh & Blake Roberts (Three Percent Co)

    EP.16 Good Friends and Full Honesty will Level Up Your Dating Life with Jamie Haigh & Blake Roberts (Three Percent Co)
    May 12 2026
    Bridgett and Lauren sit down with Jamie and Blake of the Three Percent Podcast, two therapists, friends, and husbands whose work centers on what it means to be a safe, embodied man. The conversation moves through male friendship, attachment, the difference between knowing your story and doing the work, and the quiet ways loneliness shapes how a person dates. It is a grounded, honest look at what healthy formation actually takes.**WARNING: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS A STORY ABOUT SEXUAL ABUSE*Bridgett opens with a phrase that becomes the through line of the conversation: eroticized loneliness. The ache of being unseen does not disappear when it goes unnamed. It travels into the body and shows up in dating, in sex, in the way a person reaches for a partner to carry what only community can hold. Jamie and Blake speak to this with the kind of clarity that comes from having lived it, naming the difference between social proximity and the experience of being known.Their framework rests on what they call the 3%, the small part of ourselves we keep hidden that quietly drives the rest. Real formation, they explain, is not finishing the work alone and then arriving polished into a relationship. It is the slower practice of integrity in connection, learning to bring your honest self forward, letting the people closest to you point you back to your person, and setting boundaries that draw someone in rather than push them out. Healing, they remind us, happens in relationship, not in preparation for it.For anyone dating, this conversation reorients what it means to be ready. Readiness is not the absence of wounds. It is the willingness to be honest about them and to keep choosing connection anyway. What to pay attention to is whether the people in your life are forming you toward wholeness or around it, and whether you are bringing your heart into your relationships or only your strategy. Trust what you are noticing. Move with clarity. Let yourself be known.Watch This Episode on YouTubeConnect with the Three Percent PodcastWebsite: https://threepercentco.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/threepercent.co/Join The Basement: https://threepercent.substack.com/Connect with Blake:Website: blakerobertscounseling.comSubstack Newsletter: https://blakeroberts.substack.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therapy.with.blake/Connect with JamieInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamie.w.haigh/Want help applying this to your dating life?If something in this episode resonated with you, here are two ways to go deeper depending on what you need: 🩷 Work with BridgettYou don’t need more rules. You need a deeper understanding of your sexual desire.If you still feel confused about how to navigate dating without shutting down or crossing your boundaries, Bridgett helps you build sexual self-trust and honor your values→ ⁠⁠ RECLAIM Cohort⁠⁠ 📓 ⁠⁠Free Guides and Ecourse⁠⁠ → ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ → ⁠⁠Website⁠⁠ 💙 Work with LaurenIf you’re feeling unsure what to do next— whether that’s meeting people, choosing who to pursue, or trusting your judgment in dating, Lauren helps you move forward with clarity and confidence.→ ⁠⁠Book a Dating Clarity Call⁠⁠ We’ll look at your specific situation and map out your next step. 📔 Get the free guide ⁠⁠Dating Apps Don’t Have to Be Confusing⁠⁠→ ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠→ ⁠⁠Website⁠how loneliness affects dating, what is eroticized loneliness, how to be ready for a relationship, why men struggle with intimacy, healing in relationships not before them, the part of yourself you hide in dating, what healthy masculinity looks like in dating, Christian men and friendship, Three Percent Podcast, Jamie and Blake, male loneliness and dating, healthy masculinity Christian, men and emotional intimacy, integrity in connection, healing happens in relationship, Christian dating readiness, dating with integrity, Christian men and friendship, Dating and Desire podcast, Bridgett Blood, Lauren Mathues
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    1 h et 3 min
  • EP.15 Why "Don't Waste My Time" Is Hurting Your Dating Life

    EP.15 Why "Don't Waste My Time" Is Hurting Your Dating Life
    May 5 2026

    Bridgett and Lauren sit down for an honest conversation about one of dating's most loaded phrases: "don't waste my time." They unpack where that posture comes from, why it often reveals more about our own fear than about a potential partner, and what it really looks like to date from a place of groundedness rather than self-protection.

    Underneath the urgency to know everything on date two is usually something tender. Maybe a fear of getting hurt, a belief that you only have so much of yourself to give, or a lingering message from purity culture that connection itself is a kind of loss. When we hand someone else the job of protecting our time, we quietly give away the discernment that was ours to carry all along.

    The invitation here is to take that responsibility back. Bridgett and Lauren talk about what it means to say yes to one hour, one coffee, one honest conversation without needing to know the ending. That kind of openness asks for real integrity and formation, a willingness to stay connected to yourself, trust your internal resource, and recognize when staying would require you to get small. Growth looks less like certainty and more like the steady work of choosing yourself and the other person well.

    For anyone dating, this is a reframe worth sitting with. What to pay attention to is the fear that tells you to pre-decide, the urge to rescue or shrink, and the moments your body is asking you to slow down. You are allowed to have needs. You are allowed to change your mind. And the more you practice showing up honestly, the more your own discernment, clarity, and self-trust become the compass you can actually follow.Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Y_bj7WSe2Do


    Want help applying this to your dating life?

    If something in this episode resonated with you, here are two ways to go deeper depending on what you need:


    🩷 Work with Bridgett

    You don’t need more rules. You need a deeper understanding of your sexual desire.If you still feel confused about how to navigate dating without shutting down or crossing your boundaries, Bridgett helps you build sexual self-trust and honor your values

    → ⁠ RECLAIM Cohort⁠

    📓 ⁠Free Guides and Ecourse⁠

    → ⁠Instagram⁠

    → ⁠Website⁠


    💙 Work with Lauren

    If you’re feeling unsure what to do next— whether that’s meeting people, choosing who to pursue, or trusting your judgment in dating, Lauren helps you move forward with clarity and confidence.

    → ⁠Book a Dating Clarity Call⁠ We’ll look at your specific situation and map out your next step.

    📔 Get the free guide ⁠Dating Apps Don’t Have to Be Confusing⁠

    → ⁠Instagram⁠

    → ⁠Website⁠
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    54 min
  • EP.14 Awe vs. Consumption: The Difference Between Lust and Healthy Desire with Andrew Bauman

    EP.14 Awe vs. Consumption: The Difference Between Lust and Healthy Desire with Andrew Bauman
    Apr 28 2026
    Therapist and author Andrew Bauman joins Bridgett and Lauren to explore embodiment, sexual story work, and what it really looks like to grow into healthy, connected relationships.Together, they name the difference between understanding your story and actually experiencing healing, and why the body often carries what insight alone cannot resolve. It is a thoughtful look at how awareness, formation, and lived experience all work together in the process of change.Andrew also shares his framework for how porn can shape patterns of relating over time, along with what it looks like to move toward greater integrity, connection, and wholeness in how men relate to themselves and to women.This conversation offers a clear and compassionate lens on dating, especially for women learning how to discern what is real in a partner. What to pay attention to, what genuinely reflects growth, and how to stay connected to your own sense of clarity and trust along the way.Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/j64yWeceOx0About AndrewFounder & Director of the Christian Counseling Center: For Sexual Health & Trauma (CCC), Dr. Andrew J. Bauman is a licensed mental health counselor with a Doctorate from Northeastern University.His dissertation was on studying the impact of sexism and abuse on women in the Protestant Church. Andrew is the author of seven books, his newest book is called SAFE CHURCH: What Women Can Teach Us about Sexism, Abuse and Safety within Christian Community.Connect with AndrewChristian Counseling CenterWebsiteFacebookMan Land Online Community: Use code: FOUNDING for first 200 members to get 50% off membershipWant help applying this to your dating life?If something in this episode resonated with you, here are two ways to go deeper depending on what you need: 🩷 Work with BridgettYou don’t need more rules. You need a deeper understanding of your sexual desire.If you still feel confused about how to navigate dating without shutting down or crossing your boundaries, Bridgett helps you build sexual self-trust and honor your values→ RECLAIM Cohort 📓 Free Guides and Ecourse → Instagram → Website 💙 Work with LaurenIf you’re feeling unsure what to do next— whether that’s meeting people, choosing who to pursue, or trusting your judgment in dating, Lauren helps you move forward with clarity and confidence.→ Book a Dating Clarity Call We’ll look at your specific situation and map out your next step. 📔 Get the free guide Dating Apps Don’t Have to Be Confusing→ Instagram→ WebsiteChristian men sexual healing, embodiment for men, pornographic style of relating, Andrew Bauman, sexual story work, somatic therapy Christian, porn addiction recovery Christian, emotional heavy lifting men, men's inner work, purity culture recovery, healthy masculinity, sexual sobriety Christian dating, trauma and sexuality, wise adult wounded child, under-functioning men, women over-functioning relationships, Christian men's community, Man Land Andrew Bauman, dating and desire podcast, faith and relationships, Christian therapy men, how to know if a man is emotionally healthy, lust vs healthy desire, clean anger masculinity
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    54 min
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