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Dating and Relationships: Which one is better?
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There are two ways to approach the love world. We are either dating or in a relationship. Dating can be one-on-one, in a group setting and all at the same time. What I mean by that last little bit is that one can date a few individuals separately, but all at the same time. Dating does not carry the word commitment usually and therefore it can be treated that way. In dating, we get to know what we are looking for or we get to find the person we are wanting to be with in a long-term relationship.
Being in a relationship, however, is deciding to be committed to that one person for a long while until marriage and beyond or a break-up.
Now, as far as which one being better, I would have to go with being in a relationship. Sure, dating can be fun. We can go from one personality to the next and meet quite unique or just plain scary individuals, both types being great topics of a daily conversation with pals. But, we can also be called a name that most of us would not want to be remembered by.
Being in a relationship has its goods and bads as well. For one thing, you are committed to only one person. There shall be no testing the waters with anyone else while in a commitment. The goal is to know each other's strengths and weaknesses and work it out. Hopefully, at this point in the relationship, we immensely like or even love the other person in order to be able to work it out.
Some of us don't like the concept of being tied down to one person and there is a name for that (laughter). I don't believe people choose this way of living because it is better, but because of a personal or impersonal experience that has gone wrong in the end.
A relationship takes a lot of work and most and above all, a lot of love. In a world where freedom has taken a vague and unsatisfactory meaning, committment and love, which go hand-in-hand, are the closest definitions to freedom that I can find.
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