Your marriage counsellor will give the best guidance depending on the merits of each case. The duration of courtship should neither be so short (as to make you virtually strangers who hardly know each other) nor too long. Some courtships are so long that in the end the couple even separate because there is the temptation to set eyes on other more appealing suitors or to just lose interest.
Therefore courting should not be shorter than a year because it takes time to know a person. Yet the courtship can become so long that one partner may lose interest entirely. A period beyond three years must be discussed frankly. It would be wicked to allow an ‘unlikely-to-succeed relationship’ to dangle for seven years before breaking it. God is an avenger in all such cases I Thess. 4:6.
No comments:
Post a Comment