The Ugly Truth About Dating: Sixteen Truths Nobody Handed You Before Started Dating

- How dating apps trained you to shop for people instead of seeing them- Why your "standards" might actually be old wounds standing guard at the door- The difference between real discernment and a feeling you've never learned to trust- Why "just pray about it" has quietly become a way to avoid deciding anything- What the church got wrong about purity, and what it never got around to teaching at all- How to pursue, or be pursued, without either presumption or paralysis- The one belief underneath almost every dating mistake you've ever made, and how to actually let it goThis isn't a book for people who already have it figured out, or a book that assumes you walked in already trusting the Bible. It makes its case the hard way, from consequence, coherence, and lived experience, before it ever asks you to take anything on faith. Whether you're actively dating, healing from the last relationship, or wondering if you should be doing any of this differently, this book meets you exactly where you are and doesn't let you stay there.You didn't choose most of what shaped how you love. You do get to choose what you build next.