COURTSHIP, DATING, AND MARRIAGE. HEALTH LESSON 1

Family

helps us improve our personality. It also helps us sharing our life. It teaches us the value of integrity. Love and Honesty provides us with tools necessary for success

Infatuation or Crush

is the state of being completely carried away by unreasoning passion or love; addictive love

Love

Can be described as a feeling lf intense affection for another person

Attraction

is admiration for someone that may include the desire to get to know that person better

Crushes

usually lasts for a short time, few weeks or maybe few months

Courtship

is the period in a couples relationship which precedes their engagement and marriage or it is an agreed relationship of a more enduring kind

Ilocos

Tapat (“To be inform of the womens house” similar to harana)

Tagalog regions

Balagtasan (Singing a romantic song)

Luzon

Rooster Courtship (rooster is assigned to be the negotiator, wherein the male chicken is left to stay in the home of the courted to crow every single morning for the admired lady’s family)

Bulacan

Naninilong (means serenading from the basement)

Kalinga

ebgan

Ifugaos

ca-i-sing

Tingguians

pangis (where a man and a women seperate into “houses”, for the males called Ato, for females known as the olog o ogamang, man visits the womans house to sing romantic songs and the woman reply to these songs)

Batangas

Traditional eve of the wedding procession, bring the cookie ingredients for the celebration to the brides home

Pangasinan

Taga-amo, which means tamer, a form of love potions or charms which can be rub to the skin of the admired it can be in a form of a drinkable potion

Theres is also the use of palabas, meaning a show or drama wherein a man pretends to commit suicide

Apayao

mahal-alay (allows a man and a woman to sleep together during the night)

Palawan

Pasaguli (the use of love riddles)

Pabalic/Pabalik is done to settle the price in a form of dowry that will be recieved by the women from the courting man

Cebuanos

Balak (write love letters that are sent through a trusted friend or relative of the woman

Leyte

Pangangad o Paninilbihan (suitor accomplishes household and farm chores for the family of the woman

Bicol

it is called pamianan

Tausugs of Mindanao

Palabas, sarakahan, tupul or magpasumbahi (A suitor would threaten to stab his heart while in front of the courted woman's father)

Bagobos

sends a knife or spear as a gift to the home of the courted woman for inspection. Accepting the weapon is equivalent to accepting the man's romantic intention and advances