Dating: What's the Point?

I do not agree with dating being practice for divorce. Dating is essential because it teaches you to commit yourself fully to another person. Dating helps you fully understand another person on a personal and intimate level. I think the college life promotes the "hook-up" culture among most students. Just hooking-up prevents college students from getting into a committed relationship. College students think that just hooking-up is a quicker approach than actually going out on a date with someone else and getting to know who they really are. The college hook-up lifestyle can cause relationship and marriage problems in the future because you are not use to settling down with just one person. I think that in order to have a successful marriage, people should do less "hooking-up" and more dating on a reasonable level so that they understand what it means to get to know someone else without hooking-up with them first. I think this will create more long-lasting, successful marriages.