Stages of Remote Preparation to Marriage:

1. Dating - planned activity agreed upon by two individuals for the purpose of getting to know each other, bonding, and social integration
2. Courtship - begins when people start to be real with each other and ends just before engagement; it also involves the desire to be exclusive
   
3. Engagement - confessions of everything that might change the other's decision for marriage

Phases of Love Relations:

1. Infatuation
   
   • concentrated on feelings and emotions
   • what appeals to the senses
   • primarily enveloped with feelings of euphoria and cloud 9
   • ME, I, MINE
     
   • As long as it feels good, it's love.

A. Psychological - feeling in love with love; usually defies authority
B. Physical - desire for intimacy. To have sex is to love.

2. Reality

• acceptance
• stage that would either make or break the relationship
• true love resides
• WE, US, OURS
  

3. Altruism