A brief understanding of what courtship is all about before delving into the "Don'ts in Courtship" won't be a bad idea.

Courtship is the time-honoured and successful practice of learning about someone enough to know whether or not the two is compatible for marriage. It often involves friendship, discussing each individual’s future plans, knowing the parents if they’re alive, and praying privately for God’s will in the matter.

Courtship is also the period between the time a lady agrees to marry a man and the time they eventually go to the altar.
Courtship period is a very important time before marriage. It is a period when intending couples get to know each other in preparation for a colourful wedding and glorious marriage. It is also a period when intending couples must be very careful because many people have fallen into the error of pre-marital sex during this period.

Having said that, it will be instructive to state here that there are certain things intending couples shouldn't do during this period.  If you want divine backing of God in your marriage you need to make sure your courtship satisfy Him, by avoiding the don’ts in courtship listed below by my Pastor friend, Pastor Samuel Olagbenjo:
3. Don’t have a secret courtship. Let your Pastor, friends and parents know. This keeps both parties under check and makes it difficult for one to cheat and play on the ignorance of the other.

4. Don’t double date. Be focused on your relationship and desire the best to come out of it. Stop sampling between girls/guys.

5. Never cohabit. Living together before marriage is ungodly and disobedient to the word of God (fornication). Brothers stop taking her to your bedroom when you have not paid her bride price and taken her to the altar.
It is an error to live together before marriage. If you truly love her, you will marry her. Cohabitation does not equal marriage.
Marriage is a covenant and cohabitation is a convenience.
 
6. Never be unfaithful in courtship. Those who cheat and lie before marriage are most likely to continue in the act when married. The sooner we break off from those who cheat and lie, the better and happier we would be. Believe it or not an unfaithful partner can also kill you.

7. Never have focus less courtship. Every courtship should be with the intention of marriage else break such relationship.

8. Never have sex in courtship. Courtship is NOT marriage. Don’t be deceived, the lust of money and sex is the ruin of all relationships.

9. Kissing, pecking and fondling should be avoided. (Abstain from all appearances of evil).

10. Avoid holding meetings behind closed doors.

11. Avoid sleeping in the same room, no matter the circumstance. Body nor be fire wood oh.

12. Avoid late night visits.

13. Avoid prayerlessness.

These and many more not mentioned in this article are some of the things we must avoid during Courtship if we must keep it Holy before God.

The final decision is yours to make.