- Nov 7, 2012
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The biggest difference that I know of between dating and courting is that in regards to courting, marriage is the destination that both people involved expect. There is also a level of seriousness and like snowangel~ mentioned it usually involves each person's family, contains supervised dates and often doesn't involve any kind of "physical" relationship until you are engaged or married..
I don't think that dating is necessarily superficial.. I mean.. dating is just going out and socializing with someone with the intent to decide if you are romantically interested in them.. (beyond looks or whatever). Some people will "date" more than one person at a time.. but (unless you're inconsiderate) you would tell the people you're dating that they're not the only one you're dating.. and then at some point you stop dating anyone that you know you don't want to have a serious relationship with (either narrowing it down to one person or perhaps none of them and starting over). Especially as you get older it becomes more vital to date a person before becoming serious about them.. most people wont become girlfriend/boyfriend unless they're willing to consider marriage with that person in the future
I don't think that dating is necessarily superficial.. I mean.. dating is just going out and socializing with someone with the intent to decide if you are romantically interested in them.. (beyond looks or whatever). Some people will "date" more than one person at a time.. but (unless you're inconsiderate) you would tell the people you're dating that they're not the only one you're dating.. and then at some point you stop dating anyone that you know you don't want to have a serious relationship with (either narrowing it down to one person or perhaps none of them and starting over). Especially as you get older it becomes more vital to date a person before becoming serious about them.. most people wont become girlfriend/boyfriend unless they're willing to consider marriage with that person in the future