One major problem with a couple being in too frequent contact during a long (official or unofficial) engagement is that an engaged couple naturally feels very close to each other, and being they are unmarried and are severally limited in the interactions that are permissible with each other (let us not spell this out), it forces them to act unnaturally as a soon to be married couple, whilst yet still legally unmarried. Unfortunately all too often nature kicks in and their unnatural, but halachicly mandated, detachment becomes weaker and weaker in maintaining. To deny this is to deny nature.
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