Age-old advice: Nice girl should demand the same from future husband
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From the Winnipeg Free Press, June 16, 1959
Dear Edan Wright: I’m an 18-year-old girl who is in love with a fellow of 22. The feeling isn’t mutual. I’m only hoping it will be sometime. The problem is that he doesn’t date me very often.
I believe in being a nice girl and I think that’s the trouble, because the other girls he dates have bad reputations.
When we go out, he says things that make me feel a little important to him. Do you think that when he comes to make a choice in a wife, it’s likely to be me?
Answer: I can assure you that when a fellow decides to marry, he wants a girl with high morals. And nobody is more fussy about this than a guy who has been playing fast and loose. You’re the nice girl in your dreamboat’s life, so there’s every chance that he would pick you. In any case, don’t lower yourself for him or anybody else.
He’s the one who needs to change, and it might help to plant the idea that he’ll be choosy about a wife when he gets ready to marry and he shouldn’t forget that a girl likes to be just as particular about getting a husband who is decent.
And that’s something you should consider, dear.
Read other letters from our archives at wfp.to/ageoldadvice.