Relationships
Faith Q&A › Metropolitan Youssef › Youth, Dating and Friendship
24 questions
- I am a college student living at home and I don't know what to do. Every time I do anything my mom gets mad and I just feel like no one cares about me anymore. If I try…
- I recently met someone very special, and I made it known to my family that I really have strong feelings for this gentleman. He is 19 years old and I am 20. I don't know…
- I have been interested in a gentleman for a little over a year. He and I are very good friends. It seemed to me for a while that he was expressing interest as well. So,…
- I interact with a close group of friends on a day-to-day basis. One of them is a Coptic girl. I try my best to treat her with the most respect, concern, and care. Lately…
- I have strong feelings for a particular girl that I have known at work for months. However, I am only 18 years old. I know I'm not financially, educationally, or even…
- God has bought a very special girl in my life. At the moment I am praying to find if she is the one that the Lord has chosen for me. One thing that is bothering me a…
- I met a guy last year in August and we were just friends for a while up until he told me he had feelings for me and I do too. I am only 18, a freshman in college and he…
- I am seventeen years old and there is a girl my age in church that I really care for. She doesn't even know I have feelings for her. We are just friends and that is it. I…
- A friend of mine is in love with someone who is using her, brainwashing her and disrespecting her family; but she will not listen to anyone nor will she leave him no…
- Why is it wrong to have a relationship with someone from another religion? Is it the influence? Could Your Grace please explain.
- I am nineteen years old and for the past nine months I have been in a relationship with a twenty three year old boy. This relationship started in the most beautiful pure…
- I met a young lady at a church convention. We began to talk online and on the phone for about 4 months and we both wanted to get to know each other more. I talked to…
- About a year ago, I started talking more with a friend of mine. I met him a few years ago with his family when they came to our city on vacation, and his sister has been…
- I have a relative that just came from overseas, and is very nice. She always tries to help me and stuff, but I find myself feeling annoyed by her. With her being here, I…
- I feel like I am ultra-conservative in many things. For instance, I am 100% against dancing, drinking, television, and worldly music. I know a girl who is good, serves in…
- I'm in a dilemma and I can't figure out what the right thing to do is from an ethical stand point. There's an old friend of mine to whom I gave the impression of interest…
- I am 26 years old and I have a professional degree. I could not have been where I am today had it not been for my parents’ support and assistance. Two years ago, I met a…
- For the past 6 months I have been in a long distance relationship with a Coptic Orthodox young man. He is 25 I am 23. He is very active in his church and very involved in…
- I am in my mid-twenties and have been with someone for almost 5 years. I am 100% sure that she is the person with whom I want to spend the rest of my life. We have lot in…
- If you know people who are going through a hard time and you know you could be there for them because they told you, but you choose not to be there for them even though…
- I have been in a relationship for almost two years with an amazing, godly, Coptic girl. However, recently we were told by her father of confession that we should break…
- I am a young woman in my mid-twenties. In the last few years, I have been hurt by men. I was never in a "serious relationship," but I was talking to men who I thought…
- Is it unbiblical for a woman to pursue a man for a relationship?
- Should a couple tell each other about whether they had past sexual relationships, and if so, should they reveal the previous partners identity if it is an individual with…
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