Courtship, Cohabitation, and Marriage
The distance people travel to a successful relationship ending in a long lasting union. First they must get to know each other through bonding and common interest. Once the common interest are found this could lead to a healthy courtship.
Through courtship couples find they have a lot in common and decide to get closer and then they decided to begin a life style of cohabitation. During cohabitation most couples decide if their partner will be their future significant other.
Once the decision has been made couples plan to commit to an ever lasting relationship called marriage. Marriage is the union of eternal love and commit to one another and soon to begin a strong foundation that forms a family.
You may ask, what is courtship? Well Courtship Today:The View from Acedmia says, courtship is the traditional dating period before engagement and marriage. This is the get to know each other and decide if there will be an engagement. Courtship is the trial stage to most; it is the understanding parts of life. This period of the relationship can last as short as a month or go on for ten to twenty years. It is all about what you are looking for in a courtship and what you want it to turn in to. Ted Huston says the length of courtship can average up to two years and four months, the more successful the union.
In the process of courtship Psychology of Women identified six types of behaviors: the approach, surveillance, intimidation, hurting the self, mild and verbal aggression, and physical violence. You learn to develop a since of how a relationship should be when you know who you are and what you want as you start to court.
Courtship today is not as big as it was in the early years. First let’s look at the males, they tend to find someone of interest, gets to know her and her family and that forms the beginning of a relationship. Courtship Now says, a male has the tendency to regret being pressured into a relationship which...