why is "dating" still the norm?

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I know plenty of people in monogamous relationships who love to party and drink or do drugs or both (this is the case for most of my friends who are in relationships).

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<p>Not to mention that sometimes people who are in series monogmous realtionships because they fell in love would otherwise totally sleep around! So, jack4640, unless you're saying that the very fact of people doing drug/drinking/sleeping around makes them fun, as opposed to it being a personality type thing, I see no reason that one room should be more fun than the other.</p>

<p>(Not to mention that your definition of fun is not everyone's).</p>

<p>To the original question:</p>

<p>Love. Relationships containing true commitment, intimacy, and passion. Also throw in a mature, smooth (not up and down and and back and forth crazy) aspect, and wow. This is one of my favorite things. That connection with another person amazes me. Notice I say "connection" with another, not "dependency" on. Also, I personally seem to have extreme amounts of fun when I have been in said relationships.
There's probably a lot of people out there that also enjoy this kind of relationship to the same extent that I do. I takes some work to find a person that fully meets that connection, thus, datinngggg.</p>

<p>Dating isn't outdated, it's just something that some people like and others don't. Whether someone likes or dislikes dating has nothing to do with how free and independent they are.</p>

<p>I want to get married. I want to have children. I want to travel all over the world. I enjoy sex and substances. I enjoy being committed to a single person. I fully support feminism and both men and women not being dependent on others. </p>

<p>Different things make different people happy. It's senseless to argue which is better.</p>