Rules of Attraction

Have you ever thought about the meaning of the words dating and courtship. The world’s view of dating has changed drastically from what it used to be. The worlds view on the word ‘dating’ is that the couple are officially boyfriend/girlfriend. But the old view, like what our grandparents think, is that we go on dates with a bunch of people and get to know all of them until we find one specific person that we think we could possibly have a future with. And then you begin your courtship. Which is preparing more and getting to know that person more directly and seeing if you both are compatible with each other. As well these different views on the word 'dating' that have been changed around we also discussed three rules of attraction that are very important in courtship.

These rules of attraction for courtship are; nearness to access, physical attraction and similarity’s.  Nearness to access is being close in proximity. This is important in courtship because people that live in the same area tend to have the same ideas about life and tend to like to do the same things. The next rule is physical attraction. We have been able to recognize from this class that we are attracted towards people that have the same personality as ourselves or as our family. This physical attraction is not only appearance but the person’s health, interest, personality, traits and behavioral tendencies. The last rule is similarities. We need to be able to have similarities with the person we are courting. A lot of people things that we should marry opposites but this usually creates more issues than it helps them. And therefore we should court people that are similar to us.