What is courtship? It's dating with a purpose. It's friendship withpossibility. It's romance chaperoned by wisdom. That's what I mean by setting a clear course for romance. It's not without risk, it's simply a way to be careful with the other person's heart while opening up your lives together to God's joyful best.
What is emotion? As I was growing up, my dad taught me that an emotion is a physical expression of how we perceive the status of something that we value. Anger, gladness, fear, sadness, joy, jealousy, hatred are all combinations of our perception and our values.