Dating is complicated, and getting more complicated every year. Talk with you kids about the standards you believe are best for dating. Discuss the age they can start, if it is in group dates or single dates, if they have a limit on how many times they can date the same person in a row, etc. Just as importantly, talk to them about the feelings associated with dating. This is a time of increased hormones and often times they don't know how to decifer them. Below are some quotes that might help.
Quotes:
President Monson: “Decisions determine destiny.
That is why it is worthwhile to look ahead, to set a course, to be at least
partly ready when the moment of decision comes.”
Mature love leads to success in marriage and family
life while immature love does not support success in marriage and family life.
Marvin J. Ashton: “True love is a process. True
love requires personal action. Love must be continuing to be real. Love takes
time. Too often expediency, infatuation, stimulation, persuasion, or lust are
mistaken for love. How hollow, how empty if our love is no deeper than the
arousal of momentary feeling or the expression in words of what is no more
lasting than the time it takes to speak them.”
Emotion:
Immature Love
Possessiveness
Jealousy
Infatuation
Preoccupation
Anxiety
Mature Love
Lasting Passion
Desire for Companionship
Warm Feeling of Contentment
Belief:
Immature Love
“Love is Blind”
Love is External to us
“Cupid’s Arrow”
Love is beyond our control
Mature Love
Love is something
you have to “decide”
Love means –commitment, trust, sharing sacrifice
Immature Love
Selfish
Lustful
Concern only for satisfying own needs
Clinging
Over-dependent
Demanding obedience from partner
Mature Love
Creates an Environment of growth and development
Allows partner space for growth
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