Q Dear Miss Abigail: How can I get my boyfriend to hug or kiss me? He’s really sweet and cute. Please answer this! Signed, Brittany A Dear Brittany: Sounds like you need to take action, my dear! I have a feeling you don’t want to lean over yourself and just smooch your shy sweetie, so […]
Tag: 1960s
Partygoing
The gals and I just happened to attend a wickedly fun party last weekend. So to celebrate, here is a bit of advice from Ellen Peck’s long-titled How to Get a Boy and What to Do With Him When You Get Him. The topic: flirting at parties. Not that we would know anything about that. 1969: […]
How Boys Try to Prove Their Masculinity
Here is another fine excerpt from A Girl’s Guide to Dating and Going Steady by Dr. Tom McGinnis. And not a moment too soon ~ it sure has unearthed a lot of mysteries for me. Those poor boys, always struggling to attain manliness! I feel for them, really I do. 1968: How Boys Try to Prove […]
Public Display of Obsession
Q Dear Miss Abigail: I have an obsession with my breasts and I finally am dating someone that thoroughly enjoys them, and I mean thoroughly. The problem is that he starts getting wild, in public. It gets extrememly embarrassing. He puts his hand up my shirt all the time and laughs and squeaks very loud. […]
Aphrodisiacs
Here is a small selection of interesting inducers (and inhibitors) of romance, found in Harry Wedeck’s Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs ~ just doing my part to assist all of you lovers out there. We’ll begin with my favorite food . . . 1961: Aphrodisiacs Artichoke A bristly plant whose edible parts are the fleshy bases of the leaves. […]
He’s As Dull As My Grandpa’s Dentures!
Q Dear Miss Abigail: My beautiful, creative, talented, cool friend is engaged to a perfectly gross man. Not only is he as dull as my grandpa’s dentures, he’s also kind of a jerk. Should I tell her how I feel about him? How do I avoid him without dumping her? Your fan, Irritated with Her […]
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
Q Dear Miss Abigail: How do you accept the pain and heartbreak of unrequited love? Sad A Dear Sad: It will be hard at first but I’m certain you will get over the loss. Stay strong and lift your head high! This, from Debbie Reynolds’s If I Knew Then (1962), is a good reminder of what’s […]
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 […]
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 […]