Dating And Relationships Today Vs. The Middle Ages

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I do not really like dating. I love the good relationships that I currently have with all of my friends; and I love my all of friends enough to not want to risk jeopardizing our current relationships by means of all of the stupid drama that comes along with dating. It is not close relationship part of dating that I really have a problem with; it is the fighting and the break-up part of dating that I hate. If there is a group of friends and two of them start going out and dating each other, there is nothing wrong. The other kids in the group of friends think it is cute, and just seeing the new couple so happy together makes the whole group just as happy for them. Things are going good, but the next thing the group notices is that the couple starts having fights with each other. The other kids in the group of friends begin to get concerned, but then ignore the fighting and think nothing of it; they think it is just another petty little argument with a little bit of drama that will just blow over. The fighting continues and starts to occur more and more frequently. Eventually the couple finally calls it quits and they break up (here is the part where the real drama kicks in). After the break-up, people in that group of good friends start taking sides: some take the girl’s side saying the only reason they broke up was because the boy was a controlling and egotistical and mean jerk; and some take the boy’s side saying that the reason for the break-up was because the girl was needy and judgmental and selfish. One little dating relationship can take a really good group of friends and tear them apart. I cannot even begin to describe how devastated I would be if that happened to me. I do not want to ever put my friends through that. So many modern-day teenage dating relationships end like this. In my opinion, relationships today are extremely different from
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