🔴Sun Live: Healing Through Relationship OCD and Making a Decision to Love

Join Melissa and I as we celebrate the launch of my newest book, The Myth of the Perfect One, a book about healing through Relationship OCD. We tell behind the scenes stories of the journey, while also bringing out some important insight in navigating this anxiety ridden styruggle. We talk about its impact on dating and marriage, exploring how obsessive thoughts, perfectionism, and spiritual overthinking can hinder the journey in a variety of ways.

Listen to Mark tell his story about "Don't be a fish!" or "Don't be like Dick!" that he heard in the midst of his intense anxiety and confusion.

We also talk about how Christianity can feed the intense standard of finding the "perfect person God has for me to marry." We push back on the distortions of OCD while confronting many of the Christian cliches that hold people back from facing their fears and walking towards a growing relationship in love. Many fall into the trap of trying to hear from God about the person they want to marry and we address dreams, signs, confirmation and even prophetic words that people can chase in their obsessive-compulsive confusion.

We address a question that asks, "How can a single person be more prepared and equipped when it comes to getting ready for marriage?"

We talk about the importance of making decisions towards growing in love, emphasizing that love grows through commitment and working through challenges together, rather than waiting for a perfect, mystical sign from God.

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0:00 Intro
10:20 How To Find Freedom
14:05 M & M chat about picking paint and the new book release
18:30 We went to John Crist and How Max handled it
21:40 M & M's journey in ROCD and dating
23:42 Mark's dad gave him dating advice
32:50 Our Dating Journey w ROCD
50:55 Dance Break
53:20 Greet The Chat
56:45 Thank you!
58:10 Do You Have Advice For Singles Based on Your ROCD Book?
1:27:50 Coming Off of Medication?
1:31:01 How Much Counseling Before Marriage?
1:32:45 Dealing With Sexuality Passion Being Single
1:38:50 Difficult To Be Single Nowadays
1:45:25 ROCD, Dreams, Prophecies and Confusion
2:07:40 Funny Comments about being single / Amazon Workers
2:09:35 Difficulty resisting laziness