i fell in love this summer.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Courtship is the period in a couple's relationship which precedes their engagement and marriage, or establishment of an agreed relationship of a more enduring kind. During courtship, a couple get to know each other and decide if there will be an engagement or other such agreement. A courtship may be an informal and private matter between two people or may be a public affair, or a formal arrangement with family approval. Traditionally, in the case of a formal engagement, it has been perceived that it is the role of a male to actively \"court\" or \"woo\" a female, thus encouraging her to understand him and her receptiveness to a proposal of marriage. The average duration of courtship varies considerably throughout the world. Furthermore, there is vast individual variation between couples. Courtship may be completely omitted, as in cases of some arranged marriages where the couple do not meet before the wedding. In the United Kingdom, a poll of 3,000 engaged or married couples resulted in an average duration between first meeting and accepted proposal of marriage of 2 years and 11 months, with the women feeling ready to accept at an average of 2 years and 7 months. Regarding duration between proposal and wedding, the UK poll above gave an average of 2 years and 3 months.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Have you ever been in a courtship? It's the period in a relationship which precedes a couple's engagement and marriage"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah I have a few times."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Did you ever decide if there should an engagement? "}, {"role": "user", "content": "No it hasn't ever gotten to that point."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Many people don't go through the courtship phase, such as in cases of arranged marriages."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Arranged Marriage seems so weird."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah, I'm glad I didn't grow up in an area where that's common.  They were very common throughout the world until the 18th century."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah same here, it's more common in the Middle East and Asia too."}]