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Courtship Challenge #2: Interaction

Courtship Challenge #2: Interaction

How can you know what you are looking for in a future spouse if you do not regularly interact with members of the opposite sex?
In arranged marriage communities there is little to no interaction. The young people take advantage of their “season of singleness” and wait on their parents to make the match for them. [...]

Courtship Challenge #1: Identification

Courtship Challenge #1: Identification

How do you find your future spouse if you rarely interact with the opposite sex?

One key to any successful marital system is the ability to identify a possible mate. For cultures some this means using professional match makers to facilitate the identification. Fiddler on the Roof anyone? Other cultures created opportunities for young people to [...]

Leaving is Hard to Do

Leaving is Hard to Do

Why do people cry at weddings? We don’t often cry at other life changing celebrations so what makes weddings different? Now having tried courtship, I think I know why.
Weddings signal the beginning of a new person, a new flesh, or as C.S. Lewis puts it a new entity. Two of individuals bonded together for life. [...]