Remember when young people used to date? Whatever happened to that?

Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 3/16/2014 | Msgr. Charles Pope

[PapaBear3625]

This bible says it is better to stay single if possible.

That may be a good plan for young men these days. Then again, if sex and children outside marriage are bad, then everyone staying single means the Christian community goes extinct in less than a century.

[wardaddy]

Lol

Ouch

If an objective man reads this thread he can learn a lot about women

Good
Bad
Ugly

And scary

BTW...lack of dating

I had to date to get laid except in exotic places

I blame feminism and loose girls

[PapaBear3625]

Get this -- my son's best friend at college -- sweet guy, kind & gentle, *rich* family, and an athlete good enough to come within sniffing distance of the national championship in his sport -- he couldn't get a date either! Women were even nasty about turning him down. What gives??

Girls at that age fall for the charming cads. Nice guys are not exciting enough. They want bad boys. It's even better if the bad boys are vampires, werewolves, or sadists (check out the popularity of the "Twilight" series and "50 Shades" series). The girls are willing to go with the bad boy even if they know he's also seeing multiple other girls. The result is that the bad boys get exhausted, and the nice guys wonder why the girls are not interested.

I was "nice guy" in my high-school days, didn't get much attention. In college, I put on a bad boy persona and got plenty of attention.

What happened in times past, was that girls HAD TO find a marriageable guy fairly early in the game. Being a single corporate lawyer by day who slept with bikers by night, was not an option. So the girls found a guy who would be a secure husband who the parents would approve of.

Things appear different now. The girls think they can date bad boys til they're 35, then find a nice guy to settle for. Many get upset when this doesn't work.

[driftdiver]

Baby eh, If I called you that you’d be screaming.

If you’re trying to argue the divorce laws are fair then you are either a liar or on fantasy island. The deck is overwhelmingly stacked against men to the benefit of women.

Are some men cads? Certainly, but in the end that rarely matters as the man is going to get screwed. So why should men be in a hurry to sign up for that? Its not like they cant get sex without the ring.

More women are graduating from college then men and yet women are still whining.

[driftdiver]

I was responding to the comment that we’re instructed to get married. Its more complex then a simple instruction.

Marriage is a good thing. Its good for man, woman, and kids. Its good for the country and for future generations.

Liberalism & feminism have almost destroyed marriage in the US. Even ‘traditional’ men and women tend to be far from biblical traditions.

[driftdiver]

He probably wasn’t ‘bad’ enough to attract the girls.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Really, the automobile may be as much to blame as the pill.

I remember hearing that in a documentary about the 1920s. The advent of the automobile had a lot to do with the "roaring twenties," particularly among the youth.

Modern communications will probably never be reeled back in again, but in-person supervision in youth should be ramped way up, IMO.

Absolutely.

[Faith Presses On]

I’m a Christian, not Catholic, former lesbian, in my 40’s. The Lord has led me away from what I have a college degree in from a secular school, English, because, as He showed me, the imaginations of the world are prideful, without hope and intending to cause moral confusion. So I work a low-wage job instead, but believe I have a close relationship to the Lord. In the modest life I lead, I have no end of men and women in their twenties who want to initiate a sexual relationship with me, saying “age is just a number.”
It saddens me to see how confused they are in looking for love and trying everything the world tells them to try today, and of course then they don’t find it. I see these young people, and others, like this woman in her 20’s with several children taken from her by the state, who’s pregnant by one man but going to be with her true-love fiancee in another state, as she tells me. In almost the same breath, though, she remarks about the hickeys on her neck. And, she posts Bible verses on (Cont’d)

[Faith Presses On]

Facebook and seeks prayer for one of her children, adopted out, who needs surgery. The family she came from is broken itself, and she’s heavily into Miley Cyrus, everything vampires, etc. What so many young people need are older Christians to open their lives to them, care about them, and be people they can dependably turn to, without there being expectations that things will get better quicky. The moral confusion is so bad today that it can take a long time for young people raised in it to become familiar with God’s ways.

[ConservativeMind]

Wow, you have a gravity in your words that I really appreciate.

Thank you for your insight. Please continue endeavoring to follow God in your walk and may God bless you.

[Faith Presses On]

Thank you for your encouragement. For whatever’s worthy in what I write, I credit the Lord. I used to write about things before the Lord, from my own experiences and “wisdom,” and I know the difference. Thanks again!

[AmericanExceptionalist]

I suppose some--the ultra-modern and the hopelessly jaded--may view the monsignor's words as shockingly quaint. But I view them as being right on target.

A young man--or, for that matter, a man of any age--should feel downright privileged to share, for even a little while, the company of a good woman with a complementary personality. Just hopping into bed with a quick "hookup" is hardly the same thing...