Its all semantics. Dating and courting colloquially mean about the same thing, although there seems to be a greater influence in courting in seeking the approval of the woman’s family, where as dating is simply the act of going out on a social event together. Essentially, if you are courting a woman, you will eventually be dating her. If you are trying to court a woman and never take her on a date, she will drop you like a piece of seasoned hardwood, dry and uninteresting.
On a similar line, casual dating can tern into courtship. There is nothing materially wrong with going out casually with someone to see if they are even worth the time and effort of courting. A simple social date with some light conversation can weed out a lot of potential train wrecks.
There is something good about the idea. I don’t do the ancient courting routine, but there’s lots of it in my dating.
Of course. Dating someone you know you have no intention of ever marrying is problematic to say the least. It defeats the purpose of marriage and human relationships of the romantic kind are supposed to lead to marriage. The moment you know the person you are dating is not the person you want to marry, he or she should be out. That relationship is pointless. How could anyone claim it’s right and proper to date someone one already knows one isn’t going to marry?
Until married, one has no right to demand any attention at all, and even when married it still depends on our definition of “demand”. The idea is not that a man gains such a right when he becomes ready for marriage and has a way to support a wife. The idea is that marriage creates such a right and when marriage is intended, a serious person won’t have any side-affairs (not like a side-affair is tolerable in the presence of a promise of exclusivity - in such an instance, it is plain old cheating).