those who have been or are in a relationship...what is the point...?

[Msrxchef]

Hi can I get some opinions on why people date and what the point of dating is...?

I guess in other words..why date? And why date again?

[carhill]

IME, most people I've known in life enjoy the social interactions attendant to romantic interpersonal relations, as well as the way they feel when engaging in them. That's pretty much it. Humans are feeling, social creatures, generally.

 

As someone who's lived alone a lot, there's also the aspect of ending up talking to oneself.

[dasein]

Well it allows you to taste two entrees without looking like a pig for one. Laughing is good, sex is good, tend to do more of those things while dating.

[TheFinalWord]

As someone who's lived alone a lot, there's also the aspect of ending up talking to oneself.

 

haha when I first moved home with my parents (finishing last year of school and don't need to be on campus) they would always say "who are you talking to?" "Just myself" It's funny how when you live alone you just kind of fall into this habit. They say talking to yourself is fine, but if you argue with yourself you're insane. Looks like I'm insane!

[Noproblem]

Not looking for love or anything else.......

[Djz05]

Its a pain in the butt that's what it is...

You fall in love but then all you get back is a kick in the ass and a gaping hole in your chest where your heart is supposed to be before it got ripped out.

 

sigh

[Roadkill007]

What is this love thing everyones searching for?

 

 

...

 

 

baby don't hurt me?

 

sorry, it had to be said

[Noproblem]

...

 

 

baby don't hurt me?

 

sorry, it had to be said

 

Awesome song and movie

[sillyanswer]

Hi can I get some opinions on why people date and what the point of dating is...?

I guess in other words..why date? And why date again?

 

I live in hope that I'll date someone long enough that she'll iron my shirts for me, but this hasn't happened for a long while now.

 

Meanwhile, I date because I like the company of attractive women, especially ones who find me attractive enough to want to keep seeing me, and because I like having sex with such women, because it's awesome.

[TaraMaiden]

Hi can I get some opinions on why people date and what the point of dating is...?

I guess in other words..why date? And why date again?

 

Do you want answers based on biology or psychology?

[sillyanswer]

Do you want answers based on biology or psychology?

 

Hmm. It did sound a bit like a homework question, didn't it?

[Msrxchef]

Either/or. I just want some opinions on why people think dating should be done.

[TaraMaiden]

See, you keep moving the goalposts.

 

You've gone from 'what is the point'?

 

To 'why do people date?'

 

To 'Why should people date?'

 

I suspect your question hinges less on Biology (natural human/mammalian social and reproductive needs) to Psychology (emotional/hormonal drives, the ingrained and conditioned drive to find a partner and cohabit from a relationship)

 

Right?

 

Because it's what we do.

 

Although the more we learn about the human psyche, the more we learn how complex the human brain is, and how diverse minds can be.

 

It's a general human drive to form a partnership with a significant other, because we're social animals, have a herding instinct and gravitate towards contact with others of our kind. To become a hermit and remain celibate is still viewed as being slightly crackpot, unless you are a part of a religious group.

We form, and are part of, communities, and these communities overlap.

I am part of my familial community, my neighbourhood community, my Buddhist Community, my work-environment community and this LS community.

The tendrils spread, because we want to diversify and cover as many bases as possible, in order to give ourselves the greatest possible scope of different social experiences in order to prevent the unthinkable happening.

 

We don't want to be alone.

[Lauriebell82]

Dating should be done to weave out the losers and a-holes that are out there in the "man world." It's done to try and find the love of your life by experiencing what you do and don't want in a mate.