The Purpose of Dating
Before two people actually go on a first date, they would have made some
connection. Even if a blind date is the first date, they still would have had some indirect
contact by a third party, through a phone conversation or email. The real purpose of
dating is there about contact and making a connection with someone. Contact can occur
in several ways, but a connection may or may not happen right away, if at all.
Your first desire is that you want to date. You want to see someone and you have
an attraction to that person, or you feel a connection, and you want to get to know the
person better. By wanting to get to know the person, it’s like you want to prolong that
initial attraction or standout quality that you saw in the individual. Dating is therefore a
way to seek to confirm those initial beliefs, feelings or qualities you identified for or
about the person.
But is what you seek to confirm real, imagined or not even present? That’s what
dating is also about
