Personally I believe courtship shouldn’t be more than 2 years max. Also it shouldn’t be as short as 6 months either. Courtship is basically getting to know who your spouse is, it’s very similar to dating but courting basically comes after the marriage proposal or when you’ve told the lady you’d marry her.
Below are 5 major reasons why overly long courtships are bad for women
1. Women don’t have much time on their side in courtship and should not be held down by the unfulfilled promise of men.
2. If the courtship doesn’t go according to plan, women suffer the most for it after long term relationship in which she would have been used and resulting in dumping.
3. Staying in long-term courtships without actual date and plan for your marriage could have other sides to the story, find out if your man is not cheating on you.
4. A long courtship going nowhere strips a woman of her dignity and self esteem. Because she is probably hoping that tomorrow will persuade him to make an honest woman out of her, she shoo’s off other eligible men because she thinks he’d propose at the next valentines dinner thus she discourages the real Mr Right.
5. That your man does not marry you now does not mean you aren’t a wife material, he just wants to waste your time and beauties thereafter dump you for younger women. You can’t remain his plaything forever while he enjoys the best of both worlds. You play wifey at weekends, he plays the field all week.