Matt Fradd | Dating 101 | 2019 Steubenville Youth Conference

Matt Fradd delivered this talk, “Dating 101” at the 2019 Steubenville Main Campus 3 Youth
Conference.

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[crazyedswonderfulworldofso]

Excellent talk Matt! You've really put in "teenage" terms what love, marriage, and worthwhile relationships are all about. Keep up the good work!

[teamarie]

I know you say if you dont have desire you're dead, but there really are some people who just dont think about it. It's not as common but it is a thing.

[valariegiittinger]

This video needs more likes! I’d pay just to listen to Matt talk 😂

[AJ-oxxy]

I would love this alot more if the audience was split for different talks. This isn't a male or female only talk, which I think both genders will find this lacking as it doesn't specifically speak to their needs.

[joelancon]

I am a Matt Fradd is wrong about the teenagers shouldn't date thing for one thing Mary was betrothed to Joseph at age 14, also Proverbs 5:18 says to be infatuated with the wife "of your YOUTH" I don't think the problem is young dating I think the problem is society not holding teens to the standard of workmanship younger not everyone needs to go to college and get a solid education my Grandfather married at age 18(they dated 3 years before marriage) and recently had his 50th aniversery, that being said I am a huge fan of Matt Fradd and disagree with him on this one issue

[sageseraph]

I love Matt Fradd, but it’s really hard not to cringe at this video.

[jakehiller]

Why does he bless himself on his right shoulder first? It looks wrong.

[annaelizabeth]

Matt, asexual people like myself exist, and we're not freaks, and we're not "dead".

[cactuscallie]

Wow. Such a cringey video from beginning to end. For so many reasons.
On the less serious side, the jokes and puns (the vast majority) that just fall flat... yeah... I actually feel embarrassed FOR him.
And then the content... SO many things that I completely, totally, 110% disagree with. Which, of course he has a right to his own opinions and I and everyone else who listens to him have a right to disagree with those opinions. But so many things he has said that are just not practical and just plain ridiculous.
I won't go into all of my points, because this would be a very long comment. But the main thing that I just found absurd and nonsensical is the idea that teenagers should not date. Ummm... what??? A young person's (both women and men) teen/high school years are the years that people start becoming romantically attracted to other people and discovering their sexuality. His argument that there is no point to dating if you aren't ultimately looking for a spouse is really a bit out there. There are MANY reasons and benefits of dating before one is ready to actually get married. Being in what could potentially act as a "mock marriage" teaches both partners very valuable lessons about how to deal with a member of the opposite sex that you are wanting to make a life with. As a teenager who is dating someone without the intention of marriage, he or she is learning how to argue and compromise with a romantic partner (i.e. Future Spouse), how compromises work in a romantic relationship... As well as what one does and does not like or find attractive. Maybe I think that I really want a man that takes the lead, or wears the proverbial pants in the relationship. But while I am dating a partner who is just like that, I discover that actually, I prefer to be the one who is perhaps a bit more of the dominant partner.
Dating IS practice for marriage or a long term relationship. And it teaches young adults lessons that will help prepare them for future marriage. Or maybe, just maybe, it will teach someone that he or she does ever WANT to get married, marriage is not for them. Insane idea, I know.

[bassebajs]

Wow, this was very awkward and cringe.
"Please clap"

[arturszunda]

Listened for 6 minutes and did learn nothing valuable.