Try-n-buy?

well there are different flavours of arranged marriages and when people were trying to hook me up I had ample opportunity to have solo time with the ladies and I know others do too.

Lets not start tripping over words like try before buy, the point that we got to was about misleading, and that causing issues. and there is plenty of misleading in arranged rishta process, ask the ladies here they have seen it heard about it we have seen threads about it.

again, lets not regress into the 'try physically or emotionally" stuff, when guys and girls spend time together, alone, in groups and there is one leading the other. The point is that a stereotypical view of dating is not the only situation where emotional attachment can develop, and it is not the only situation where one can mislead the other and then take off..

again, absolute terms, no..
dating “may involve”, “often involves”. “mostly involves”
yes but a plain statement like dating involves..well then that just says dating comes in one flavour and thats it, and that is simply not true

as I said earlier..

again, absolute terms, no..
dating may mean meeting for mating for a number of people, but for all, no. again your statement is indicating that dating comes in one flavour and thats it, and that is simply not true

utterly incorrect.

however, during the hours people spend with each other during uni and work, attachments develop, whether it is having lunch together in a canteen, or sitting together for company or uni events, two people or a group..

look at the end of the day, whatever name someone gives it, dating, courting, hanging out..and in whichever situation, the end point is that if someone is misleading another then emotional distress can happen, now if some person is going to have an issue with someone who has been hurt emotionally, then well that says something about that person. throwing words like used etc just makes the person emotionally hurt as less of an individual or culprit, whereas they could have been 100% sincere and just were misled.

sure.., the deeper, longer and more formal the relationship, the higher emotional trauma..all other things being equal.

but emotional trauma can happen in other cases too. aadhi qaum in pakistan is doing rona dhona over aashiqi and firaq and mehboob and raqeeb…thats not all due to ‘dating’ is it :slight_smile: