Who dates anymore? Dating has become a lost art, replaced with social media and the internet. The term “dating” has been sorely taken out of content and is now used as a word for someone you like and talk to, text, or chat with on a regular basis. That sounds to me like a good friend, not someone I’m dating. Let me break it down for you. Good old Wikipedia states :
Dating is a form of courtship consisting of social activities done by two persons with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a partner in an intimate relationship or as a spouse. While the term has several senses, it usually refers to the act of meeting and engaging in some mutually agreed upon social activity in public, together, as a couple.
There is a saying I like to tell my daughter: “You can’t date him unless he has his own insurance”, meaning, he should have a job and his own vehicle. That way he can actually TAKE YOU OUT on a date.
I would say a great percentage of the kids today and most adults between the ages of 18-25 have no clue what it is to actually date someone. Just on a quick survey, 90% of them who claim to have a boyfriend or girlfriend have NEVER taken them on a date, unless you consider the quick semi-intimate moments in whatever room was available. But a true date, no.
So let me help you chat/text dependent youngsters out.
Dinner and Movie: This is when you make arrangements with your “friend” to go out at a particular time. Either you pick them up or you meet at a location - NOT McDonalds or Taco Bell, but something nice. You chat over dinner, not the computer, and get to know each other. Then you go to the pre-determined movie.
See, you got out of the house, had a social outing with another person. Enjoyed good food, good conversation, and a movie. Now that’s a date.
Text me, or hit me up on Facebook, and I’ll give you pointers on the second date.
What does dating mean to you?
