in thread "Was "going steady" a positive or negative": There seems to be a lot of ways to arrange courtship and marriage, many of which work, and any of which can fail. Steady girlfriends does introduce this weird limbo state of half-marriage that doesn't have obvious teleology, and is suspect for that reason.... 13mo ago (collapse hidden) 77 22 There seems to be a (view hidden) 77 22 I'll do an extended sequence of effortposts on it some time then. 13mo ago (collapse hidden) 33 22 I'll do an extended (view hidden) 33 22 This all seems very wise, and while I can even imagine being persuaded by such arguments when I was a teenager, I can't imagine taking them from some ponderous book that talked about God. Books of wisdom, and theology, seem to be something for mature men, ... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) 66 This all seems very (view hidden) 66