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Our society’s pursuit of selfishness has led to much brokenness, leaving us with a culture in which it is all the more difficult to experience loving relationships. As relationships have become more privatized, more selfish, and less family-oriented, marriages are not doing so well and divorce has become common. Dating as it is commonly practiced is a bad proving ground for marriage, and the problems that characterize our dating relationships will carry over into our marriages. The converse, however, is also true: The good habits we practice in relationships before marriage will also manifest themselves in marriage and in all our relationships. Therein lies a tremendous opportunity—it is not an overstatement to say that to the extent we practice unconditional love in our premarital relationships, we chip away at the coarseness of society and change it and the marriage culture for the better.