I was reading through some of the side-bar stuff and just from lurking it seems the general consensus is to not put any effort into taking a friendly relationship to a romantic relationship. (Forgive me if I’m wrong, I’m familiar with RP but still pretty new to the RPChristian side of things)
In my experience though, women will mostly never make a first move. They will expect the man to make a move to “escalate” the interactions from platonic to romantic. If a woman is interested and a guy doesn’t make this escalation eventually it often seems as though the relationship will become strictly platonic in the woman’s eyes.
Now I completely understand that we should never begin “pursuing” the woman or make her our goal as expanding the kingdom should be are only priority but, just because expanding the kingdom is our priority that doesn’t mean we should completely neglect all of our other desires that don’t directly do this (I mean it’d be great if we could just become robots and ONLY advance the kingdom but He didn’t make us that way lol)
For example, if start to yearn for nature and have the desire to climb a mountain, I’ll begin to plan a trip, buy supplies, pack up my gear, and go climb the mountain. Even though this doesn’t directly feed into my missions of serving God, it does indirectly help by being an amazing experience that refreshes me mentally and emotionally and allows me to come back to the mission fully charged.
Now, in this example to go climb the mountain I had to take necessary steps to make it happen. I wouldn’t ever end up on top of that mountain by chance and I don’t think anyone would say that taking these steps meant I quit putting God first in my life. Of course, if I made a reasonable effort and found that I was unable to make it to the summit and then became obsessed and dedicated months to trying to reach the summit, THEN it would be fair to say I neglected my mission and put the mountain before God.
All this to essentially ask the question of how to escalate things with a woman that desire has formed without 1. Creating unnecessary temptation and 2. Pursuing her and making her the prize
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