Dating or Just "Hangouts"

In class we have been talking a lot about the foundations of a good a healthy relationships. We talked about before we get really serious with someone we need to come to know them as a person. Their likes and dis-likes. Things that bug them and things that they absolutely love to do. How can we commit to someone before knowing who they are. In class we discussed the vital importance of dating and not just "Hanging out". Hanging out with someone is very different than dating. Hanging out is not serious and does not show any type of commitment. It is a come as you like activity. When we date we are more committed to each other. This is not to say that if you go on a date with someone you have to be in a serious committed relationship.It means that you are practicing those skills that if one day you do find someone that you would like to be more serious with you already know how and what to do to really find out who they are. I see in my generation we are so more willing to just hang out with one another but does that really help us find strong and healthy relationships. To me I believe that "hangouts" are things that we do to play games with one another. When we are just hanging out we are not serious on what we really what. "Hangouts" are safer that really put ourselves out on the line and showing another person our true selves. I think that young kids now a days need to date more and hang out less. We need to start practicing those commitment skills so that when we do find the right one we can fully commit with out being scared to do so.

I know I haven't made a post for awhile but I have been learning so much about families in my family relations class. I am coming to realize the great eternal importance that families have in our lives. We need each other. Through our families we learn about who we are. We learn  more about our personalities and characteristics through our family relations. I learned that each man and women have characteristics that make us divine in the eyes of our Heavenly Father. He has given our characteristics to us to complement each other here on this earth. Our loving Heavenly Father doesn't think one gender better than another. We complement each other and we need each other in this life. No gender is better than another because we are all sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father and he loves us the same. He has put us on this earth for a purpose and that is one day to ultimately return back to him. We need each other and that means all our characteristics. We need to as men and women increase and develop more fully our characteristics so that we become whole people. When we are two whole people and we come together to make a life together we wont break. It is like when you solder two things together. If the things you are soldering are broken and you are trying to sauder them together again the sauder can be broken. But if you sauder two whole things together on top of each other, that sauder is nearly impossible to break. The sauder makes the sauder strong. That is like men and women when we are both whole people with our own characteristics and we come together nothing can break us. But if we are broken and unsure of our divine characteristics and we come together it can possibly be easier to break us. It is good to learn of our divine roles and characteristics that were divinely given to us by someone who loves us infinitely, and that is our Heavenly Father.