I just met my soulmate!  I never thought it could happen, but it did, and I love him so much!  He said he wants to court me!  So sweet!
How wonderful! Courtship marks the beginning of a more enduring kind of relationship, but before engagement and marriage
Really?  I never heard of the term until he said he wanted to court me!  Tonight he's taking me to the movies!  I can't wait!
Well, a courtship can be informal and private, or it can be a formal public arrangement with your family's approval!
My family better approve!  I think he's great!  I hope we have a long courtship!
him and her receptiveness to a marriage proposal.
Duration.
The average duration of courtship varies considerably throughout the world. Furthermore, there is vast individual variation between couples. Courtship may be completely omitted, as in cases of some arranged marriages where the couple do not meet before the wedding.
In the United Kingdom, a poll of 3,000 engaged or married couples resulted in an average duration between first meeting and accepted proposal of marriage of 2 years and 11 months, with the women feeling ready to accept at an
really never heard of the term noodling before and for some reason I immediately imagined it was about, of all things, masturbation. I guess it sort of... Oh, it sounded sort of funny and perverted and that's just what I thought. And even though Bradley continued sort of talking, telling about his idea, all this stuff kind of happening in a, you know, a couple of seconds, my mind was still building up this bizarre masturbation story and so by now I was thinking that he was going