Letter to a Young Man in Waiting

Dear son, I’d like to have a brief talk with you about your dating life.  I know—you haven’t started dating yet.  But I know that you want to, so now is probably the best time for us to have this discussion.  Before we start, you should know that I think it is okay that you are not dating right now—I don’t want you to get the impression that you have to be dating at this stage in your life.  Yet, you want to enjoy marriage someday, and dating is obviously the first step in that direction....