Dating

I do not believe that dating prepares people for divorce. I think it actually would make a marriage stronger if people had more experience with dating. I say this because when two people are together, there are bound to be disagreements and arguments along with good times and memories. However, if a couple can work through their disagreements in a calm and mature manner, I think it will be beneficial to either of them in the future. Marriage is all about compromise, so the more experience you have with it, the better you will be at it; on the other hand, if you are going out with someone and you have heated arguments about insignificant issues and decide to break up time and time again, I could see how that might lead to divorce in the future. But, for the most part, I think dating would be beneficial towards marriage. Some other reasons for dating is you can have a companion and somebody who will hopefully be there for support in tough times. It is a way to practice caring for someone other than yourself and giving to another person or just being there for another person in general. Unfortunately, I really do not know that many people who actually "date" anymore in my life. They may hang out at a persons house or something, but none of my friends are really going out to dinner or a movie or anything like that. Dating and "hooking up" are two completely different things. Hooking up, for the most part, is a one night or one time kind of thing and it usually does not mean anything. Because of this, a lot of people end up getting hurt if they actually did like the person. Dating is when two people like each other and they want to see what will happen. I think dating definitely requires more confidence than hooking up.