Q Dear Miss Abigail: How do I stay in a relationship? I always seem to get bored or frustrated with the person I’m seeing so I break up with them!!! Signed, Sick of dumping! A Dear Sick of Dumping: This little excerpt is from William J. Robinson’s Sexual Problems of To-Day (with “today” being 1921, of […]
Month: July 2010
Breaking Up Is Way Too Hard to Do
Q Dear Miss Abigail: I have been going out with a guy for one year and I am interested in another guy. My boyfriend doesn’t want to break up with me. What should I do? Signed, Pooja A Dear Pooja: Ah, the classic story of failed romance, and the man who would not let go. […]
The Plight of the Other Woman
Q Dear Miss Abigail: I am seeing a married man, who has a four-year-old daughter. He tells me that he loves me with all of his heart, and that his marriage is going to end soon, and for me to just be patient, and he will be with me. What should I do? I do […]
Where Are We Going?
Q Dear Miss Abigail: Recently, my guy and I have done some serious messing around. Last night it got pretty intense, but he still hasn’t asked me out. I don’t get it. What can I do to understand where we are going? Signed, Confused A Dear Confused: Ah, a familiar tale. I’m afraid the news […]
How to Take the Pleasure Out of It for Him
Relationships are not all wine and roses. Sometimes you know you must break it off with a man you no longer find suitable. Well, ladies, never fear. Nina Farewell offers some advice for this type of situation in The Unfair Sex. I also am including a section from the same book titled “Some Ways To Make […]
His Culture is Coming Between Our Courtship
Q Dear Miss Abigail: Oh, Miss Abigail, I need your help! How can I get my foreign man to see: “When in America do as the Americans?” His culture is coming between our courtship! Help! Signed, Plenty of Couscous and Confusi A Dear Couscous: Though you have not stated what the particular problems are, I […]
My Boyfriend is a Heroin Addict
Q Dear Miss Abigail: When we first met, my live-in boyfriend was a recovering heroin addict and I was in recovery (for prescription pills). He has started to use heroin again. We never have any money, and are two months behind on our rent. He just got fired yesterday because his boss was sick of […]
Journey to Ethicsland
Q Dear Miss Abigail: I am roommates with a woman that I am madly in love with. The problem is that she is dating a man that I have been friends with for awhile (although we’ve known each other longer than either of us has known him). Is it wrong for me to want them […]
“Don’ts” Every Girl Should Know
Reading Cosmo (once a sick vacation pleasure of mine) and those Rules books inspired presentation of this excerpt. Here are some older “rules” ~ or in this case “don’ts” ~ from Dorothy Dix’s How to Win and Hold a Husband (1939). I chose the most entertaining from a somewhat longer list. Are you taking notes? You will be […]
The Years of Living Dangerously
Q Dear Miss Abigail: I am forty-seven years old and my boyfriend of three months is a youthful sixty-five. Many people doubt our relationship will work because of the age difference, but we do great together. I think his son believes I am just a “gold-digger,” but I am not digging for anything except a […]