Q Dear Miss Abigail: Please help! There is this girl that I know who likes this boy that I also like. This Valentine’s Day I’m getting ready to tell him in his Valentine this, “I like you, will you be my Valentine?” Should I or should I not? I want to get my Valentine to […]
Tag: 1960s
Go Forth, Young Women, and Find Men
Q Dear Miss Abigail: I am eighteen years old and have never had a boyfriend, not even a date. I haven’t even been kissed. Guys tell me I’m cute but don’t ask me out. I’m not the thinnest girl and I dont have the biggest breasts and I have glasses and I don’t dress sexy. […]
Keep on Flirting
Q Dear Miss Abigail: I recently discovered that I have been flirting with far more girls than I had realized. Please, I need to know where the line is between flirting and a witty conversation. Signed, Wondering in Wisconsin A Dear Wondering: Just curious ~ how exactly did you come to this realization? I’m picturing […]
The Thin Line Between Like and Hate
Q Dear Miss Abigail: Could “I hate you” mean “I like you”? I ask this because there’s this guy and when we we’re playing and joking around he said “I hate you” and I said “I hate you” back. But when I said “I hate you,” I really wanted to say “I like you.” So […]
I Like This Guy in My Class
Q Dear Miss Abigail: I like this guy in my class and I’m not sure if he likes me or not. Should I ask him out? Signed, Samapalooza A Dear Samapalooza: You might consider tracking down Ellen Peck’s How to Get a Teen-Age Boy and What To Do With Him When You Get Him, a book […]
Is He Available?
Q Dear Miss Abigail: How’s a girl to know if a guy is available? I mean, checking for rings is all well and good, but how can I tell if a guy’s not married or if he’s even into girls? Can Helen Gurley Brown or any of your other relationship sages help me out here? […]
Is There Any Hope At All?
Q Dear Miss Abigail: What do you do if you asked a girl out, in a romantic fashion and in a foreign land, and she indirectly says no, but you still like this person and you have not been able to get her out of your mind for the past 8 months? Signed, Sameer A […]
How Do I Find That Utterly-Adorable Other?
Q Dear Miss Abigail: After hearing gazillions of times: “just wait and you’ll find the right person, there is someone out there for everyone, your perfect match could be just around the corner,” I have decided to forgo the lengthy, time-will-tell answers of others and seek your advice. Can you tell me how one seeks […]
Speaking of Marriage…
Just saw this over at Boing Boing: images from and commentary about a 1962 book titled When you Marry.
1966: Country Life
I’m in Vermont for a few days of R&R; and found a few books at a used bookshop in Brattleboro: Lao Russell’s Love; a scientific and living philosophy of love and sex; A 1980 reprint of the 1768 The delights of wisdom concerning conjugial love: after which follow, the pleasures of insanity concerning scortatory love […]