Historically, Filipino dating culture also made its way from conventional to nowadays. Courtship and relations in the Philippines are conservative. A man will have to take care of a woman and prove his love mail order bride for her before he can win her heart. Sometimes the courtship period lasted for years. But this is a very old-fashioned idea. In the larger and more urbanized cities, this conservative idea of courtship has not received much attention. Often the Filipino groom-man expresses his interest in the woman in a reserved and friendly manner so that he is not considered very domineering, aggressive, or arrogant. However, a series of friendly dates is an average starting point in the Philippine way of courtship.