Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!dartvax!andyb From: andyb@dartvax.UUCP (Andy Behrens) Newsgroups: net.singles,net.social Subject: Re: Meeting the Parents Message-ID: <2599@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 13:56:43 EST Article-I.D.: dartvax.2599 Posted: Wed Nov 28 13:56:43 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 08:48:03 EST References: <614@pucc-k> Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 19 Xref: sdcsvax net.singles:4963 net.social:310 > Now, by this time you and your SO have decided that you aren't quite > ready for happy wedlock-hood, but that won't deter you from sharing > the living quarters at this time..... > [But your] parentals are into the notion that only 'bad girls (yes! > double standard!)' 'live in sin'. I'd tell them: "You've brought me up well. You know that I wouldn't do something that was wrong. I know that when you were my age couples didn't live together before they were married, but I've thought about it and I fell that it is the right decision for me." When you visit them for Thanksgiving, resign yourself to sleeping separately, or rent a motel room if you can't survive apart for even a single night. Andy Behrens andyb@dartmouth.csnet {astrovax,decvax,cornell,ihnp4,linus}!dartvax!andyb