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PeteZaHut
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Is it wrong to date if you are not yet sure if you want to get married?
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Nechasin
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In my opinion, No. I think it is part of the discernment process.
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CarrieH
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I think it’s fine as long as you remain chaste about it. How else will you get to know the opposite sex on a romantic level unless you spend some time with them? Then, if you truly decide that you are called to religious life or the single life, you will be making a somewhat-informed decision and your mind won’t be filled with “what-if’s.”
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dixieagle
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Dating is pretty much the only way to get to know someone to figure out if he or she is the right one. Just maintain your standards and look out for “near occasions of sin”, as the nuns used to call them.
You’ve got to help God out a little bit here; just can’t stay home and hope that your soulmate arrives on your doorstep.
You’ve got to help God out a little bit here; just can’t stay home and hope that your soulmate arrives on your doorstep.
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Noobasaurus_Rex
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There is also courting…Dating is pretty much the only way to get to know someone to figure out if he or she is the right one. Just maintain your standards and look out for “near occasions of sin”, as the nuns used to call them.
You’ve got to help God out a little bit here; just can’t stay home and hope that your soulmate arrives on your doorstep.
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rwoehmke
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Nothing wrong with dating per se. One of the rules my wife and I laid down for our children was no one on one- t- one dates until age 16 and then when a particular person was dated they were not allowed to date that person again until they had dated someone else. Lots of their friends thought we were stupid.
We used to call exclusive dating “going steady” and we were discouraged from doing so until we had the possibility of being married in a reasonable length of time say about a year. It was supposed to cut down on temptation.
As a result of all these things, the first time ever that I dated someone was for our senior prom. Before that we just went to dances and stuff as a group. We had lots of fun and missed a lot of the stress and strain that comes from early one on one relationships.
We used to call exclusive dating “going steady” and we were discouraged from doing so until we had the possibility of being married in a reasonable length of time say about a year. It was supposed to cut down on temptation.
As a result of all these things, the first time ever that I dated someone was for our senior prom. Before that we just went to dances and stuff as a group. We had lots of fun and missed a lot of the stress and strain that comes from early one on one relationships.
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