The Game of Love is Finding Adam Finding Eve’s Catholic dating coaching tool – a guided experience that helps you understand your temperament, reflect on your dates, and grow in the kind of self-knowledge that actually leads to a holy marriage. It combines three practical tools – a temperament assessment, a post-date evaluation, and a readiness check-in – all grounded in the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person. If you’re a Catholic single who’s serious about marriage but tired of guessing your way through dating, this is what we built for you.
The Deeper Story
We created the Game of Love because we believe that to date successfully as a Catholic seeking marriage, you must understand four things: who you are, what love really is, what marriage really is, and what to look for in yourself and in a potential spouse. That’s a tall order, and most dating advice doesn’t come close.
The Game of Love is built on the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person – “a framework that gives a rich comprehensive understanding of the nature of the person. The Meta-Model is developed from core premises about dimensions of personhood contributed by the wisdom of the psychological sciences, as well as by philosophy and theology” (CCMMP, Ch. 1). That means when you work through the Game of Love, you’re not just filling out a personality quiz. You’re engaging with a model that has “11 components that captures the person who is theologically and narratively created, fallen, redeemed; and philosophically a body-soul unity who seeks vocations and virtues” (CCMMP, Ch. 5).
This is not a singles community. This is a community of people who seek formation and to answer the vocational call of marriage by following Jesus. The Game of Love is our way of putting that mission in your hands.
What This Means for Your Dating Life
Here’s what this looks like practically. Before you date, the temperament assessment helps you understand your natural patterns – how you communicate, what triggers you, and what you actually need in a partner. After a date, the post-date evaluation walks you through honest reflection: not just “Did I have fun?” but “Did I see virtue? Did I feel peace? Was I authentically myself?” And the readiness check-in tells you where you really stand on the path to marriage – not where you wish you were, but where you are.
You don’t need to be perfect to start. You just need to be honest.
Where to Go from Here
Start your Game of Love journey at gameof.love – it takes about ten minutes and the self-knowledge is worth every second. The best formation begins with the courage to see yourself clearly.