To only date on person

Something that is different; it deviates from the standard or normal

Not black and white, not clear cut. It can be two things at once, not just one or the other. 

To slowly go away

Therapy or counseling before marriage that asks you and your partner difficult questions (among other things) to ensure you’re ready for marriage.

Thorough

 In the near future; able to be seen or predicted

To count up 

 A minister in charge of a Christian church or congregation.

To encourage or cheer someone on 

 Loving, positive comments or sayings

To spin in a circular motion downward. We often say “to spiral out of control”. Think of the action of a tornado and imagine that we are using this in a figurative way to show someone’s downfall. 

Someone’s career trajectory or path

A type of dancing to country/folk music. A line dance is a choreographed dance with a repeated sequence of steps in which a group of people dance in one or more lines or rows, all facing either each other or in the same direction, and executing the steps at the same time.

Alcohol mixed with juice or a soda is a mixed drink.

Like a nail

The place where a fire is dug into the ground outside

The part of the flower that is pretty and soft that you remove and put on the ground or bed when you’re trying to be romantic. 

Causing nervousness

When something lasts longer than it should or is expected, you say it’s “drawn-out”.

This is an idiom that means you fell in love the first time you saw someone.

To start something where you stopped it, despite a long time passing. This is a saying we use with good friends that we haven’t seen in a while, but when we do it feels like we were just talking to them yesterday.

 “I believe that”

To agree with someone about something

A guise is an external form that hides what’s underneath. So we mentioned people go on dating apps under the guise that they’re looking for a relationship, when in reality they’re just eager for a hookup. 

A pun is a joke using the different possible meanings of a word. When you say “No pun intended” it means that you aren’t meaning to make a pun funny. For example, Brentley said he didn’t mean to make a joke about the common word. He said, “to be on the same page” and his fiancee is named “Paige”. 

To go above and beyond what is normally expected; to do more than you’re asked or expected to  

 Someone who is very humble, worthy and reliable (a good honest person).

 Just under; “just shy of + a number”.

To happen without any issues arising

The classic saying that when your wife is happy, you will also be happy!