Dating

This week in my class we have been learning a lot about dating and preparation for marriage. We spent a lot of time learning about how dating has changed over the years.  The difference between dating and courting is something that we have lost over the years that I think our culture desperately needs to get back. We use to go on dates (with many of the same people at once), start courting (our dating now days), engagement and marriage. Our culture use to spend a lot of time in the first stage and quite a bit of time on the second stage. Then fairly little time on the second two stages. My generation does almost the exact opposite. We spend very little time dating, sometimes we don’t even spend any time dating. Instead we just hang out for a few weeks. We become couples really quick after we meet. We then get engaged fairly fast. Then before we now it we are married and all of these problems arise. This is because people really don’t know who they have married and what to expect. We also haven’t learned what it is like to be really committed to each other. There is a reason that the prophet and apostles keep telling us to date more. Now all we need to do is listen.