The Dating Game
I don’t know about you but when I hear the word dating it creates a feeling of dread inside of me. In our culture of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, there is this atmosphere surrounding the idea of dating. Because there is a rule that our church has set saying that you should not date until you are sixteen years of age, many of the youth can not wait for their sixteenth birthday. But if this week’s class has taught me anything, it has taught me that we are approaching the dating game all wrong. There are said to be four distinct stages or steps to a relationship 1. Dating 2. Courtship 3. Engagement 4. Marriage. However, over time these steps have become more and more vague creating more a slide than distinct steps to progress from. Now, you may think that this slight change does not really make a difference, but because of this change it has made everything so much more confusing for everyone involved. Nowadays you see people hangi...