DATING

        By Margaret Kent

        Conduct your dates with marriage in mind. Conversation should be the operative word in this stage of your marriage quest. Have fun with your friend or classmates. Enjoy movies, concerts, sporting events, or the theater with your co-workers and family - but not with a man you are interested in.

        Diversions make it harder for you to get to know your date. Diversion-driven dating can wait until your relationship with a man is secure.

        Instead, take the time to converse with the man you're interested in. Do this whether you're going out for coffee, having lunch at a family restaurant, or enjoying a summertime picnic lunch in the park. Dating is your  prime opportunity to evaluate the men you meet and develop relationships with them.

       Create the opportunity for a man to spend time with you at little or cost. At first, he'll invest either his money or his emotion in you, but not both. You want his emotions! Let him have a great time talking freely about himself. The man will seek you again just to spend time with you.

        You should, by now, be starting to meet a wide variety of men. You'll have many more dating opportunities as you go forward into your quest.