yeah um, I guess it depends how you would define courting? I think that when a couple is seriously thinking about marriage in the near future, they should spend as much time as humanly possible together. How else can they possibly know if they're making the right choice.
Of course time ALONE is not the best idea but time in general, to me at least, seems like a MUST.
Spend time at each other's houses and see how you interact with each others families, etc. etc. Go out in service together, go to the meetings together, I duno I would say do as much as you can together... cos after all after the wedding day it's gonna be ALL THE TIME and you better be sure you're gonna like that!
That's what I was thinking..I really didn't get what the brother (maybe because I didn't hear the talk personally) was talking about. Okay, budget the time you are together alone..duh! But, when other people are around? I don't see the problem, especially if the other people are mature adults.
I agree. If you are seriously planning to marry then you should spend enough time together to get to know each other (though, you can never completely know someone by just dating - lol).
Buuuuut, I would say that if marriage is not near in the future then limit the time you spend together. I think the advice is given because the closer you grow to a person the more more comfortable you will feel around him/her and that could lead to a problem as far as conduct.
Yes there is a section in the Young People as Book about that. A guy and a girl can be just friends but when they are exclusive friends and Best Friends then an emotional attachment is bound to happen and that is what you have to be careful of becoming to emotionally attached to someone of the opposite sex.