Dating: How to Practice for Divorce

clarissa
Dating is a fun and popular exercise, but people involved in dating may not know that dating can be detrimental to your future marriage. While most people think that dating is a process of choosing the best characteristics in a mate, dating can actually be a set up for future divorce. I know it sounds extreme, but once you read this article I'm sure you will be convinced. Below, I have written a how to guide. This guide shows you how to practice for divorce. All you have to do is continuously date, and you are on your way to becoming skilled at ending up alone. People date in many in many types of ways, but in all of those ways, there are similar themes.

As people date, they practice finding flaws.
Most people begin dating someone, and then they become boyfriend or girlfriend with that person. The two begin to call themselves a "couple." At first, the couple is in love, but then each partner in the couple begins to see little flaws in the other person. Soon, these small flaws become bigger flaws. Before each partner knows it, the couple has broken up. The two partners succeeded. They found something wrong, and it broke them up. When you date and break up because of problems, you are getting yourself ready to do the same thing in your marriage. Most marriages that end up in divorce do so because of a problem that started out small.

Dating helps a person practice flirting.
While most people are dating, they are still searching for "the one." "The one" may not be the person that they are dating at the moment. Therefore, while they are spending time with the "wrong" person, they are keep their eyes open for the right person. This makes the girl or guy get used to "keeping their options open." They are ready to flirt with "the one" when they think they have found him or her. It becomes no surprise that when a person who has practiced keeping their options open gets married, they have a hard time keeping away from the flirtatious secretary at the office.

Dating helps create mature situations.
A lot of pregnancies are birthed out of the dating process. Young men and women are forced to purchase condoms at a drug store or discuss birth control. While the young boy or girl should be worrying about grades, he or she is making even tougher decisions about having children that could affect his or her entire life. With this kind of early mature decision making, it's no wonder that marriages begin to fall apart over something like money. If people can't take a stance on just not having sex in order to keep from having a child too early, why should they be able to easily stop their money spending habits that are bringing the entire family into debt?

In a nutshell, dating brings a lot of practices with it that could end up as future habits. Perhaps, if you want to get married, you should merely find yourself a friend and just casually get to know each other.

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  • Most marriages that end up in divorce do so because of a problem that started out small.
All you have to do is continuously date, and you are on your way to becoming skilled at ending up alone.

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  • Pendragon11/17/2008

    Excellent article, when I saw the title, the first thing I thought of was Joshua Harris's book, "I Kissed Dating Goodbye." Thank you for posting this!

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