The Importance of the Opposite Sex and Dating

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There’s a reason why there is a male for every female and vice versa. Have you ever thought about getting married, being loved, and loving someone else ? If you’re a normal individual you have thought about who your soulmate is at least once. Why is it so hard to date, court, and get married nowadays if there’s somebody for everybody? Dating is a vicious cycle. Men are supposedly the predators yet you have more women taking that position today throwing the chemical balance off between men and women. More men are becoming use to flocking females, thots, whores, hoes, whatever you call them because women are allowing too much inconsistency, red flags, and chilling in their life or simply just trying to take on the role or principles of a man. Knowing your worth is worth your while and can help you figure out major decisions in your life. Don’t know your self worth, spend time with yourself and figure it out.

You also have a lack of standards, respect, discipline, and communication in general when it comes to dating. It’s important that you communicate your wants, needs, and desires to your partner; not leaving them to just observe and assume. Dating is a general concept not just for intimate and romantic relationships but for personal relationships and growth. Essentially you are dating your siblings, parents, family, friends, and associates which is the bases of how you handle your relationships. It’s a space you practice in and grow together.

Each person and relationship is its own. Don’t place your expectations upon people without communicating them because it’s the best way to be let down. From experience of studying myself, I’ve learned others. Humans have different perspectives and development cycles 🔄 they are transitioning in life so it’s a courtesy to not pressure yourself or others with unknown demands thinking it’s common knowledge because its knowledge to you, also consider the fact that in todays modern society we didn’t grow up seeing or knowing what healthy relationships are or what they look like 👍🏽. At least not all of us, I mean look at our families, communities and society.

We had to not only parent ourselves but some of us also had to parent others and ourselves too, so with that being said if you don’t have the capacity to communicate at the level of intelligence or patience you would a child but not speak 🗣️ in the tone of a child to an adult 👩🏽 then dating and courting may not work out for you. You may inherit a bad habit of feeling like why does this always happen to you or your experiences aren’t the best. When this happens you have to look in the mirror 🪞 reflect honestly on what you attract based on your intentions and/or actions.

For example, most men will complain about why females don’t never pay for nothing or use their significant other as their personal bank but fail to look 👀 at how they show up (starting with your personal brand) in society and your relationships. If you lead with your wallet, materialistic (a form of consumerism), and you lack the ability to make it clear what you expect in return if that’s your true self showing up then you will attract those types of females.

Another example, is women complaining about men being broke or only wanting sex when she may attract those type of men because of how she presets herself and what she accepts. I can truly speak 🗣️ from my perspective and ways as a woman that when I changed the type of men & women I had around me even as friends my life changed drastically. I created a life plan that updates every year, it consist of my core principles and values, goals and priorities. I do not connect with people if they do not align with my life path or what I seek in a life partner because we all have roles and responsibilities.

It is up to the man to be a leader, provider (to provide not just financially but provision which is a form of structure, discipline, and stability), and protector. He must move as such bringing in that masculine energy and power. That’s what it means to be the head of household. It is the woman’s primary principles that she must act as a creator, lover, and nurturer providing a different form of provision that leads to organization, discipline, and stability from a feminine energy and power. These dynamics are Yin Yang energy and a form of harmony. We must always strive for balance in our relationships and lives.

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We must start with simple communications for mutual understanding and a base especially for new relationships. It is unfair to you and another person when you don’t openly express your thoughts 💭 about who you are in a means of showing up as your true self, wording your expectations of what you want or looking 👀 for from a relationship because no one is a mind reader and if you are it’s rude to read people without consent or use your powers unrighteously if there is no consent. It’s an invasive way of getting to know someone.

My experience of dating and courting for the last 12 years went from being a promise to self of learning myself, love 💕, dating and courting to an experiment of relations between two people using myself as a variant subject and participant.

Here’s what I learned from my practice as a Comms Scholar and Practioner:

Understand the Process and Terms

 

. Dating
a. to be a boyfriend or girlfriend of (someone of the opposite sex)
b. to accompany (a member of the opposite sex) on a date

 

 

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Dating consist of social activities between two people with the aim of assessing each others compatibility/suitably to be partners in an intimate relationship, and or spouse. Dating is a social relationship, casual and fun. So What are the protocol, rules and practices to dating ? It’s a man made idea of searching for your soulmate, so it applies differently according to your location in the world.

Definition of Date 📆

  1. a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen: July 4, 1776 was the date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
  2. the day of the month: Is today’s date the 7th or the 8th?
  3. an inscription on a writing, coin, etc., that shows the time, or time and place, of writing, casting, delivery, etc.: a letter bearing the date January 16.
  4. the time or period to which any event or thing belongs; period in general: Funeral arrangements will be announced at a later date.
  5. the time during which anything lasts; duration: The pity is that childhood has so short a date.
  6. an appointment for a particular time: They have a date with their accountant at ten o’clock.
  7. a social appointment or engagement arranged beforehand with another person, especially when a romantic relationship exists or may develop: to go out on a Saturday night date.
  8. a person with whom one has such a social appointment or engagement: Can I bring a date to the party?
  9. an engagement for an entertainer to perform.
  10. dates,
  11. the birth and death dates, usually in years, of a person: Dante’s dates are 1265 to 1321.
verb (used without object), dat·ed, dat·ing.

  1. to have or bear a date: The letter dates from 1873.
  2. to belong to a particular period; have its origin: That dress dates from the 19th century. The architecture dates as far back as 1830.
  3. to reckon from some point in time: The custom dates from the days when women wore longer skirts.
  4. to go out socially on dates: She dated a lot during high school.
verb (used with object), dat·ed, dat·ing.

  1. to mark or furnish with a date: Please date the check as of today.
  2. to ascertain or fix the period or point in time of; assign a period or point in time to: The archaeologist dated the ruins as belonging to the early Minoan period.
  3. to show the age of; show to be old-fashioned.
  4. to make a date with; go out on dates with: He’s been dating his best friend’s sister.
Idioms

  1. to date, 
  2. up to the present time; until now: This is his best book to date.
  3. up to date. 
  4. See entry at up-to-date. 
ORIGIN OF DATE
First recorded in 1275–1325; Middle English noun from Middle French, from Late Latin data, noun use of data (feminine of datus, past participle of dare “to give”), from the phrase data (Romae)“written, given (at Rome)”; Middle English verb daten “to sign or date a document,” derivative of the noun

Definition of Court

  1. Law.
    1. a place where justice is administered.
    2. a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases.
    3. a session of a judicial assembly.
  2. an area open to the sky and mostly or entirely surrounded by buildings, walls, etc.
  3. a high interior usually having a glass roof and surrounded by several stories of galleries or the like.
  4. Chiefly Irish.
  5. a stately dwelling.
  6. a short street.
  7. a smooth, level quadrangle on which to play tennis, basketball, etc.
  8. one of the divisions of such an area.
  9. the residence of a sovereign or other high dignitary; palace. 
  10. a sovereign’s or dignitary’s retinue.
  11. a sovereign and councilors as the political rulers of a state.
  12. a formal assembly held by a sovereign.
  13. homage paid, as to a king.
  14. special or devoted attention in order to win favor, affection, etc.: to pay court to the king.
  15. the body of qualified members of a corporation, council, board, etc.
  16. a branch or lodge of a fraternal society.
  17. Animal Behavior.
    1. an area where animals of a particular species gather to display.
    2. the group of insects, as honeybees, surrounding the queen; retinue.
verb (used with object)

  1. to try to win the favor, preference, or goodwill of: to court the rich.
  2. to seek the affections of; woo.
  3. (of animals) to attempt to attract (a mate) by engaging in certain species-specific behaviors.
  4. to attempt to gain (applause, favor, a decision, etc.).
  5. to hold out inducements to; invite.
  6. to act in such a manner as to cause, lead to, or provoke: to court disaster by reckless driving.
verb (used without object)

  1. to seek another’s love; woo.
  2. (of animals) to engage in certain species-specific behaviors in order to attract a mate.
Idioms

  1. hold court, 
    1. to have a formal assembly of a judicial tribunal or one held by a sovereign.
    2. to be surrounded by one’s disciples or admirers, giving advice, exchanging gossip, receiving compliments, etc.
  2. out of court, 
    1. without a legal hearing; privately: The case will be settled out of court.
    2. out of the question; undeserving of discussion: This wild scheme is entirely out of court.
ORIGIN OF COURT
First recorded in 1125–75; Middle English co(u)rt,from Anglo-French, Old French, from Latin cohort-(stem of cohors ) “farmyard”; see cohort

Dating VS. Courting

 

Is there really a difference between the two ? Well you know my favorite thing is to dissect, so let’s figure it out.

  • Courting is getting to know someone with the intentions of building a lasting long term monogamous relationship. (It’s called OFFICIALLY being in a relationship with actual goals and plans).
  • Dating is a couple planned activities, scouting options that are available to you, with intentions of becoming romantically involved. (otherwise known as practice) it’s figuring things out, figuring out what you want and what you don’t want.

In my opinion yes, it’s levels to relationships., dating isn’t easy and courting is no easier but between the two dating is a lot easier than courting someone. The only difference between courting is that you have made the conscious decision of investing in something that your interested in , care about, and find worth while that could turn into something worth living for.

Stages of Dating

  1. Attraction/ Choosing

  2. Uncertainty/ Deciding if the person is right for you
  3. Becoming exclusive (mutual decision to become committed)
  4. Last but not least Courting

 

 

 

My experience with dating these past 12 years has been crazy but well worth getting to know me as a woman. This topic has been well researched and lived to back up the details in this post. I’ve become confident with what I want as a woman, comfortable with choosing my man after he has chosen me. It’s not about being thirsty for someone but it’s about being appreciated and shown interest in who you truly are giving back what’s giving to you via your love language. Learning your love language and your significant others is very important because you do not love 💕 someone in your love language. Dating is fun but courting should always be your goal. From personal experience:Never settle for less than what you want, deserve, and seek, don’t waste your time. Lets get back to basics.

This post was updated September 25, 2024.

4 responses to “The Importance of the Opposite Sex and Dating”

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    Micheal Davis-Crayton

    First let me say this…Experience doesn’t translate to expertise… I see you are steadfast in your argument or belief system about expectations so let me help you out… Use practical wisdom when it comes to expectations… If someone gives you something understand that comes with an inherent price… No different from the price you expect to pay when you walk in any store and receive something… Everytime you receive something that transactional energy or equation must be accounted for because if that is lost on you then you usually will lose… No part of life is set up where a situation is going to speak to you directly or give you a clear and concise answer… You must learn to draw inferences,read between the lines,and observe the situation accordingly… Hence most jobs are not going to give you a detailed outline of what your duties are… It’s in your best interest to figure it out or create a value for yourself that makes you somewhat irreplaceable with the knowledge that we all are replaceable on some level…Also understand all money ain’t good money so if you ain’t willing to pay the price for it I would readily suggest you decline it or don’t ask for and expect it from a relationship… Considering if that’s what a man is leading with… You called it “consumerism” so at its core he is purchasing a good or a service correct? Now you must figure out how you are going to be a “good” or be of “sevice” to him… Anything less he gone want a refund love…

    1. Thank you for commenting and sharing your thoughts!

    2. First, I appreciate your perspective and the wisdom in understanding the importance of expectations. However, I believe there’s a key piece missing in this conversation—the role of communication and clarity in building healthy relationships.

      Yes, experience doesn’t always translate to expertise, but expertise in relationships comes from both understanding and *expressing* expectations. It’s true that life doesn’t always give us clear answers, and part of maturity is learning to read between the lines. But, in relationships—whether personal or professional—clarity is equally crucial. No one should be left guessing.

      In a healthy relationship, there’s a balance between reading subtle cues and directly expressing needs. If we rely solely on inference, we risk misunderstanding and misalignment. Just like in any good business deal, terms should be clear. The energy exchange you’re talking about can only be fair when both parties are on the same page—when everyone knows the price, so to speak.

      It’s true that some things come with a price. But that “price” isn’t always transactional in nature. In a relationship, we are not commodities to be bought, sold, or refunded. We are human beings with needs, desires, and boundaries that deserve to be communicated and respected. A man may be leading with an offer, but that doesn’t mean a woman’s only role is to figure out how to serve him. A healthy partnership is built on mutual respect and reciprocity, not one where one person feels they must perform to avoid being “replaced.”

      I agree that “all money ain’t good money” and sometimes the cost of something is too high. But I also believe that in relationships, we must openly discuss our needs, wants, and expectations. It’s about more than paying the price—it’s about creating a connection where both people feel valued, seen, and heard.

      So yes, draw inferences and observe. But also, communicate clearly and set healthy expectations. That’s how you build a relationship where both people thrive, and neither has to guess or feel uncertain about their role.

      Hope this clarifies my position and brings balance to our conversation. Again, Thanks for sharing!!

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