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So what is dating exactly?!?


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I know the answer to this question is probably different for each person, but I want to get people's opinions on what would be considered dating? This stems from something I have with someone right now, but I figured I would save those details for later and just get this question out first. So what is considered dating?:confused:

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- It's a (quick/rough) compatibility check (both physical and personality-wise)

- It's a courtship display (like Paradise birds and Peacocks do)

- It's giving in to (socio)biological pressures.

- It's sexual selection.

- It's meeting.

- It's bonding. (or the opposite)

- It's protocol.

- It's ritual.

- It's cultural.

- It's entertainment.

- It's communication, i.e. exchanging information about yourselves. (face to face)

- Intimacy can be a part of dating. (Holding hands, kissing, hugging, sex)

 

Perhaps I can come up with some more, but that's what I got so far.

Edited by Nexus One
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I see what you are saying. Thanks for the reply. So at what point is someone casually dating and then seriously dating, if there is such a thing. Maybe I'm thinking too much into this, but I hate wondering. I wish these things were more black and white, not every shade of grey imaginable.

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