OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD: TO DATE OR NOT TO DATE? THAT IS THE QUESTION

May 6th, 2009 | By admin

Check this out. I was talking to Precious last night and she told me that she doesn’t date. Of course I asked her why not. She said that “people date to get their rocks off and my rocks are only for my husband.” So I asked her, “How will you know you want to marry someone if you never date them?” She comes back with a word I heard once in a old movie my moms was watching – courtship.

To Precious, courtship happens when two people get to know each other to see if they’re “compatible” for marriage (sounds like dating to me). But then she says that courtship can only happen when people are old enough, and have the desire to take on the responsibility of marriage. According to her, people our age don’t date to see if they want to marry a person, they date to have someone to hook up with on the regular. Then I said, “Exactly! That’s the whole point!” (more…)