🚀 go-pugleaf

You were doing fine till the second to last paragraph which I thought was 
full of it.

Personality overcome the other 5 elements??? I've never seen it, at least 
where the term "date" is used. Your last paragraph seems to run contrary 
to all you said in your other statements.

I think what needs to be done is to define the word "date". I think for 
too many people -- especially under 32 -- the word carries some type of 
romantic meaning; whereas for others it means something that refers to a 
scheduled event mutually agreed upon by two people that may or may not 
have a romantic interest.

I have been informed that I have NEVER gone out an a "date" with my friends 
(though we have gone to some really nice events); but rather that "We 
went out as friends". If you ask me we went out on a non-romantic date; 
if you ask her we did not go out on a "date", but rather just "went out  
as friends". It is as if saying the two of us went out on a date, the sky 
would cave in.

If a man and a woman are not friends first how can any relationship work? 
If a "date" is something "romantic", why not call it what it is -- desire 
to have sex, but don't say that it is "the start of a relationship" -- it 
is the start of SEXUAL relations, period. In that lies the trap that "Oh 
Gee, s/he loves me, maybe s/he might make a good wife/husband", the 
relationship was not there to start with, and maybe this might explain 
why we have such a high divorce rate.

I think it might be worth while therefore to DEFINE what is meant by the 
word "date". 

Bob
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