Coupling

While I was babysitting for a friend couple, the wife mentioned, "We saw Ben and his new wife at the wedding this weekend, and I thought, we should have them over for dinner, but then I remembered that they live in LaCrosse."

And this gave me pause. It reminded me that couples do things with other couples. Obviously people keep friends who are single after they get married, but there's a greater emphasis on doing couple-y things. Especially in Christian community, couples outreach is important. And it's just not right to hang out with someone of the opposite sex who is married. But I must admit that it makes me sad. There are some really awesome people I know who are married, and I would love to get to know them better, but hanging out with married couples while you're still single and you don't know them super well is... well, awkward.

So I came to the logical conclusion that one of the perks of getting married is that I will get to hang out with all these awesome couples. And that's like a whole other thing to get excited about, you know, besides the marriage thing itself. So that's what I'm looking forward to in marriage: double dates.

(I still hold that it is very important for young people discerning marriage to be around good married couples. I've absorbed so much just from observing interactions of the people for whom I babysit.)