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"We avoided the purposelessness of dating by setting boundaries on our time together and made it known that marriage was the overall goal, whether it would be to each other or someone else."

And the difference between this and dating is what??? Apparently then this author (I'm a born-again Christian and I don't agree with this) believes that any relationship between boy and girl that is not consciously headed towards marriage is pointless. I disagree, dating and companionship can be very comforting to a lonely late-teen to college student, even if the person is someone you may not marry. Besides, you never really know that for sure until a proposal is made, and dating (courtship) provides the method of finding out.

"No talk of marriage was made until an actual proposal was given, and there was no kissing until the ring was on my finger, (how exciting that night was!!)."

To which he was thinking "holy crap is her breath going to be this bad for the rest of our lives??"

"Some of my friends have begun to forsake the dating scene for a more respectful and less predatory way of interacting with the opposite sex, and are the happier for it."

Translation: girl plays hard-to-get and plays with every guy's mind. Regular, stand-up guy never really knows where he stands with her. Guy probably has enough after a little while and dumps her. Girl is basically single until some poor lonely sap pathetically sticks it out and becomes so obsessed with her that he asks her to marry him. To his suprise she says "yes", because she knows that any guy who is not a dependent pathetic loser hanging on to a thin shred of hope for a relationship will never stick around for this kind of treatment for very long and if she wants to get married she has no choice.