Why Is Dating So Confusing?

I was reading my friend Rudi Pena's blog called The Dating Life of A Mormon Girl and I agree with what she says completely. She talks about how Mormon girls look forward to being able to date at the age of sixteen. Then when you actually turn sixteen your expectations are shot down because it is not what you expected. She also talks about how nowadays dating is so blurred because no one wants to classify a date as dating. Usually it is classified as hanging out so a lot of the time girls don't know if guys are interested in them or not. It used to be that if a guy liked a girl he would ask her out. I believe that some guys are hesitant of asking a girl out because they think that girls think that a date means that the guy wants to marry them or they think that it is more serious than what it actually is. In my Family Relations class this week we were talking about cultures. The Mormon culture is that couples usually get married in their early twenties and they get married fast. I think this scares some people away from dating altogether. This is probably a big reason why some guys only want to "hang out." Most girls are not like this however and guys should just go for it!
If you are actually in a relationship, it can sometimes crumble because you go and vent to your friends and family about things that annoy you about your partner. This will eventually make you have pent up hard feelings toward your partner, I believe. So I think in order to help fix this problem you should talk to your partner about directly instead of talking to other people about them. These are some of the reasons why dating is so confusing but I think we can make it a little less confusing by not being afraid to date and not talking about our partners faults to others.