The 3 P’s of dating, paired off, paid for, and planned. These are some very powerful P words, especially when it comes to dating.  Dating should be something that we do frequently, it is the prep that we need for marriage. It is a great learning experience and we really need to take advantage of it while we are at this school.  One of the things that I think that we really need to take advantage of while we are at this school is the ability that we have to go on dates with so many different people from so many different walks of life.  While we need to go on many dates before we find the person that we want to marry, we need to make sure that our dates consist of the 3 p’s/  They need to be paired off dates, not necessarily group dates, or even double dates,  The need to be paid for.  You can’t be dining and dashing, that wouldn’t be a very good date, and they need to be planned.  I have been on some dates where nothing was planned, and those dates turned out to be awful.  There never really is a waste of a date, but those dates that I have been on that weren’t planned, were never really productive and they usually ended up being really short and not very fun.  But if we do keep to the 3 P’s we can have better quality dates, and dating is really going to help us to prepare for marriage when the time comes.