Dating to Engagement to Marriage!

We talked abou alot this past week, but a subject that really stood out to me was: dating, engagement, then marriage. There three things are so important in anyones life and they are important to know and study/ do. There are certain steps to each of these 3 topics that you must know and learn how to do to be succesfull in any of them. First of all, you MUST go on dates. None of this hanging out nonsense. We talked about the 3 P's in dation and those are Planned, Paid For, and Paired Off. You need to do/ let the guy do these things so you can see how he will react to these things. When you get engaged there are alot more steps than if you were dating. Im sure people don't really think of it like this, but there are. The two of you have to practice and prepare for marriage by practicing mutual decision making, problem solving, establishing boundaries, relying on eachother, and practice making sacrifices for and with eachother. Then there is marriage. There are plenty of things that we have to change/ get used to in the fist month. You have to learn to become as one. I really enjoyed this topic in class and it amde me think of things i should be doing now, and things i will definatly do in the future.