I’ve been thinking about the notion of courting. What does it mean? Is is a good thing? A bad thing?  I mentioned to my boyfriend that I wanted to be “courted,” and he reacted as if it was a bad thing.
I was confused by his reaction at first, but then I thought back to a conversation we’d had about 20 minutes prior on the word “prerequisite” and it occurred to me that it might be one of those words that mean different things to different people.
I looked up the word “courting” and Free Online Dictionary has this:
*To try to gain the …read more