Comments on: is it possible to transact love and commitment without dating as we know it?

By: Raleigh Love

Raleigh Love — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:29:14 +0000

I have to admit, It’s over a year after teh fact but I stumbled on this particular web page from a semi-related search, and I felt the need to correct the record.

George Schlichting was the field hand at the school house. John David Love (My great-grandfather) was the man who wooed and eventually wed Ethel Waxham. If you’d like a more complete examination on the courtship, my aunts have compiled all the correspondence exchanged during the entire event in a book called “Ladies Choice.”

By: Michael Tim

Michael Tim — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:47:24 +0000

I love your site!

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By: Sara Call

Sara Call — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:33:14 +0000

Wow! Who wouldn’t want to receive letters like that? The frankness, the warmness of them.
Yes, their “transaction” is “portable” to our day. Wouldn’t we all appreciate a little honesty and upfrontness from other people? Especially in dating? If someone cannot be frank with you as a friend or person you are dating, how do you know they will be frank in a marriage relationship anyway?
It’s okay if one person loves before the other can/does love. Dating (or whatever you choose to label a pre-marriage relationship) doesn’t have to be heat and fireworks, but it must have heavy doses of sincerity and risk.
One thing that I appreciate about my husband is that he unashamedly loved me long before I could say the same in return. He was patient, but I knew where he stood–right next to me. Emotional honesty is frightening. It always will be.

Is love not true if unrequited?
Or affection unwarranted if unreturned?
Is kindness not precious if unappreciated?