Rethinking Love: Why Covenants, Not Contracts, Change Every Relationship (Married or Single)

Rethinking Love: Why Covenants, Not Contracts, Change Every Relationship (Married or Single)

Published: February 25, 2026

Duration: 1:03:06

This episode reframes how we think about love and relationships by contrasting fragile, contract-style arrangements with the resilient, biblical model of covenant. Drawing from marriage research, Scripture, and decades of walking with couples in crisis, J. Warner Wallace explains why seeing marriage (and other key relationships) as covenants radically changes how you date, marry, and relate—whether you are single, engaged, or married.​

You'll hear why people who "love marriage" itself tend to have stronger, more sacrificial relationships, how your marriage (or singleness) is always preaching something to the watching world, and why thinking of relationships as contra...