This week’s discussion in class was a bit more appealing I would say to our age group. We talked about dating, relationships, and falling in love. Fascinating, eh?

We first discussed “hanging out” compared to actual dating. Hanging out is literally just hanging out, you’re not there with someone in specific, you’re not committed to anyone, you are just there to have a good time and, well “hang out” with friends. This is not how you get to know people and begin to build a relationship that ultimately leads to marriage. Dating however is how you will begin to build that relationship.

Three things that we discussed that make it a date are, Planned, Paid for, and Paired off. First ‘Planned’. That means the date is planned out, both the guy and the girl are both prepared for the date. Second ‘Paid for’. That doesn’t mean that money is always has to be involved, it means that all resources are put in place. And finally, ‘Paired off’. Pretty self-explanatory there, but that means you are together with someone, for the duration of the date you are committed to each other. Something that we discussed going along with those three things are the roles of the man and the women in The Family a Proclamation to the World. It states that the man is to “Protect, Provide, and Preside.” So how are those related? We did it this way; ‘Planned’ and ‘Preside’ are correlated, ‘Paid for’ and ‘Provide’, and ‘Paired off and ‘Protect’. Then the role of the women is to “Nurture”, in which she does by complimenting, bringing out the best in the person, encouraging, etc. Pretty cool how everything is coordinated.