Dating: What's the Point?

After reading chapter five of our textbook, I disagree with David Cloutier's claim that dating is just practice for divorce. I feel by putting ourselves out there and dating we will find what we are interested in in a potential life partner. I feel dating also allows us experience love for a partner that cannot be experienced otherwise. It helps us grow into being a better person for our future spouse. Since we are so young, I feel among my peers and I we may not be thinking about someone were dating or taking to prom as a future husband because there is a lot of time to do that thinking ahead of us. Hereby, in that way the author of the book may be right in saying adolescents are just living in the moment when it comes to dating, but in my mind I don't see this as wrong. However, this may be why the hook-up culture in college is so common because people aren't taking the activity as serious as it should be. They are not thinking about what it includes, true love for another person.