Like a perfect rose blooming in a pockmarked battlefield is the fine art of true dating. Most of what you’ve learned about dating in popular culture is like the battlefield. Want to keep your emotions, body and spirit flying safely above the bombs bursting in air? Then read on!

by Randy Stiver

What’s the general goal of much or most of dating today? That’s right. It’s all over the sitcoms, lots of the “chick flicks,” R-rated movies and conversations among teens and young adults in school hallways and social hangouts. There’s just one primary message about what too many guys and girls want of each other—and it’s not good conversation, fine friendship or eventual marriage.

What’s the endgame of wrong and promiscuous dating? Right again. Ragged and jaded emotions; sinfully violated bodies (both genders); a haunting, sad-eyed, brokenhearted, guilty conscience; premarital pregnancies ending in either the weary and lonely existence of single-mom-misery or tiny aborted lives snuffed out before they can even cry for help.
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