Some of the Problems with Dating...
- Dating promotes lust and moderate sexual activity, opening the door for fornication.
- Dating develops a self-centered, feeling-oriented concept of love.
- Dating creates a permanent endorphin-bond between two people who will not spend their lives together.
- Dating teaches people to break off difficult relationships, conditioning them more for divorce than marriage.
- Dating develops an appetite for variety and change, creating dissatisfaction within marriage.
- Dating lacks the protections and guidance afforded by parental involvement of courtship.
- Dating doesn't prepare children to face "life's realities"
- Dating devalues sex and marriage.
- Dating leads to intimacy but not necessarily to commitment.
- Dating tends to skip the "friendship" stage of a relationship.
- Dating often mistakes a physical relationship for love.
- Dating often isolates a couple from other vital relationships.
- Dating, in many cases, distracts young adults from their primary responsibility of preparing for the future.
- Dating can cause discontentment with God's gift of singleness.
- Dating creates an artificial environment for evaluating another person's character
