Another from the great Evelyn Millis Duvall, this excerpt may help you sort out those funny feelings you get when looking at People magazine. 1967: The Date for You It’s common knowledge that certain teen-age girls swoon over movie and TV stars. Through the years girls have formed strong emotional attachments to idols available only […]
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Boys, in 500 Words or Less
Q Dear Miss Abigail: What is the best way or sentence to sum up boys between the ages of thirteen and fifteen? Signed, Meg A Dear Meg: Golly gee whiz, Miss Meg. You’re assignment is hard! I couldn’t find just one sentence to answer your question, so I’m going to ramble on a bit. Here […]
Understanding Boys
Boys, boys, boys. It sure is hard to understand them. I was therefore pleased to find this bit of information in one of my latest purchases: A Girl’s Guide to Dating and Going Steady by Dr. Tom McGinnis. You may want to also read a selection from a few pages later titled “How Boys Try to […]
Sick of Spontaneous Dates
Q Dear Miss Abigail: For the past two months, I’ve been dating a man that I really like. We get along just fine. His many good qualities indicate he might even make a good marriage partner for me. The problem is he sometimes asks me for dates at the last minute. I’d much prefer a […]
What Do Those Boys Talk About?
The premise in For Boys Only is that Dr. Frank Howard Richardson has been tasked with explaining “what happens to you, now that you are changing from a boy to a man. It explains how and why girls and women are different from boys and men. It helps you to understand why it is that you […]
Courtship ~ For the Man
Wooing. There is no word greater, as far as I am concerned, in the world of dating and marriage advice. So here it a bit of advice for young men about this delicate art from Margaret Sanger’s 1940 edition of Happiness in Marriage. 1940: Courtship ~ For the Man For the young man, wooing must be […]
How do I Date Multiple Prospects?
Q Dear Miss Abigail: I’m a male recently out of a long term relationship, and have aggressively reentered the dating scene. I am not ready to start a new committed relationship with just anyone ~ I want to find Ms. Right. How do I go about dating multiple prospects without being sleazy or dishonest or […]
Courtship: Immediate Attraction
I must admit, I am drawn to the brutal honesty of this selection, and how quickly the authors ~ Esther Tietz and Charles Weichert ~ smash all hopes of love at first site. Makes me feel so…what’s the word… oh, I’ve got it ~ depressed. Or maybe not. Maybe everything will work out just fine […]
Travel for Two
Q Dear Miss Abigail: My boyfriend wants me to go on a trip with him ~ just the two of us. Is it proper? Signed, Stepping Out A Dear Stepping: Well, dear, I think it depends a lot on what sort of trip he’s planned and exactly how long he plans for you to be away. […]
Dear Lovey Dovey
Q Dear Miss Abigail: My boyfriend is going away for a month and I was just wondering if you had any neat things that we could do to keep in touch. Plus, he’s sixteen and I’m thirteen so it’s really hard for me to trust him while he’s down there. Signed, Anonymous A Dear Anonymous: […]