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FRESHMAN RELATIONSHIPS
'I just get along better with guys...'
“This can be damaging to our own gender and our own ability to engage in friendships. It's really easy to project hurt, pain, a stereotype, envy, frustration, or even fear onto relationships with the same-sex, and then find refuge in friendships/relationships with men. However, there is significance in recognizing that a simple statement like that is more about your own development. Balanced living comes from learning to grow in friendships with both men and women. We must respect each other always and not define our friendships by a gender or stereotype of that gender.”
“I am always surprised in the best of ways by the maturity of women on this campus. They manage to balance the stress and pressure of a relationship well, but most often because of the support system they have outside of the relationship. I stress the value of good friends.”
“Orientation boyfriends or girlfriends”
“I always advised Freshman to not date within the first semester of college. Take the time to enjoy the transition and the new environment. It is good to figure out your friend group and determine who you want to be. College is a fresh start for many."
- Take it slow. There is more than enough time to meet people and date: no rush to get into a relationship
- Embrace the brother- and sisterhood that is available
- Enjoy the college experience.
- Let relationships happen naturally; No need to force anything
- Be confident in yourself.
FRESHMAN RELATIONSHIPS
Eniola Azeez, Gabriel Isaak, Josh Contreras, Kelyn Struiksma
Justin Blomgren
current associate director at APU, former resident director in smith hall and trinity hall
Chaili Trentham
resident director in adams hall
biblical perspective
- Song of Solomon 2:7
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases
- 2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness
- God First
so now what?
intimacy
- Challenge: pressure to become intimate in a new relationship
- How God/others can help relieve this pressure
- How to create intimacy without being intimate
negative aspects
positive aspects
- Close off to meeting new people
- Time consuming
- co-dependancy
- May hinder relationships/connections with same-sex friendships. ie: hall mates.
- Emotional distress & distraction from education
- Encourages meaningful conversations/relationships
- Exposed to new circle of friends
- Grow in personal identity
- Learn how to interact with others
- Relationships are natural and fulfilling
- begin learning the necessities within relationships
- encourages monogamous relationship
students say it best :
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