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 […]
Category: Dating
Advice for the daters in the crowd.
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 […]
Things That Turn Men Against You
I’d like to share this, uh, informative excerpt found while anwering a recent question on shyness. It’s from This Passion Called Love, which was written by Elinor Glyn. Ladies, sharpen your pencils. You just might want to take notes on this one. 1925: Things That Turn Men Against You American girls, I think, are the most delectable […]
How to Be a Girl with a Boy
This important information comes from Kay Thomas’s Secrets of Loveliness, found during a thrift-store shopping spree. Section 1 of this book ~ “You and Your Feelings” ~ includes a few tests to help you figure out just how lovely you are: “Do You Really Like Yourself?” “How Lovely a Daughter Are You?” and “How Do You […]
When the Woman is Older
I don’t know about you, but according to the grumbling of many of my readers and friends, the pickings seem to be getting slimmer out there in datingland. So when a few gals I know came across some fine younger gentlemen (you know who you are), it got us all thinking ~ is the age […]