week 5: dating & courtship.

This week in class we talked about dating and how dates are slowly becoming more and more uncommon. These days with teenagers and sometimes even college students it's more of just a "hang out" rather than a date. To better understand what a date is we talked about the three characteristics of a date, they are: planned, paid for and paired off. A date is not you and a group of friends just hanging out, even if there is an even amount of people there. In oder for it to be considered a date there must be an equal amount of boys and girls and each boy must be paired with a girl. If dates are taken seriously, they could lead to more serious relationships and eventually marriage. There are other factors that affect dates and how successful they are. Its called the "Know-Quo" and there are three T's in it. The first is togetherness, this means that you do a variety of activities on your dates, not just dinner each time, make sure there is a variety. The second T is talk, there must be good conversation between you two at all times, make sure you are getting to know each other. The third T is time, according to the Know-Quo it takes 3 months to start to know each other. You must spend a lot of time with this person to know if you can handle each other at good times and bad times. Dating is very important and a gesture everyone should practice in order to gain an understanding of how marriage will be so they can be better prepared.