Courtship: Dating with a Purpose

{ Read Part One Here }
This will be a rather interesting post, as I have not had a single bit of experience with courting. Hopefully those who read this get something out of it, because I am really not sure that I know what I am saying.
I have not been on a date for three weeks now, and the lack of thrill, excitement, and pure intrigue has been refreshing. My life has been filled with joy and contentment, and understanding.
Still, there is something missing. Something important, something special.
Temptation after temptation comes just have fun enjoy being young other girls have boyfriends - do what they do lower your expectations accept what you can get
I won't give in.
I want a husband. Not a boyfriend. Not a roommate. Not a flirt partner. A companion. An equal.  (and the corny phrase that nearly ever young woman expresses at some point - usually with a dramatic and devoted air) A Father for my children.
Maybe I am making sweeping judgments, but it seems to me that a lot - if not most - of the young men that I have known or seen, who are eligible for marriage, have no intention of being a husband. Maybe they like the idea of how non-committal a boyfriend and girlfriend relationship is? It does not make sense to me, regardless.
This is why I will no longer go out with a young man unless he has an intention, and his intention is clear. I am not sure that I have Rachel's admirable pluck - requesting for the Intended to answer questions on paper, questions that I would have to spend a lengthy amount of time racking my brain to invent, may not be my thing.
But knowing, expecting an answer to the question,  "Why did you ask me out?" Continually living my single life with no knowledge of purpose to potential dates -  it won't work for me.
Maybe my expectations are not realistic; but I firmly believe that if I put my faith in true principles, going my own way, rather than the way of the world, the Lord will bless me with success.
[ Part Three will ensue once I have had some experience. ]