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The Kill Switch and the Steering Wheel Wednesday, August 24th, 2022.

Dear Darla, so in my last letter, I concluded with a reference to you meeting a genuine

prospect, and I believe I even used the word eventually.

And now your mother has informed my wife that this may have happened.

So what's his name?

My only concern here is that it not be a morgatroid.

That should be a deal breaker.

So as you're already corresponding with your favorite uncle, I take it that you are not

averse to a little of uncular advice.

When you are all by yourself unattached, boys as a topic is kind of out there in the abstract.

And when you are married, scripture sets down a very clear pattern for life between the

sexes.

But how are you supposed to behave when a guy has asked you out a few times?

What are the rules?

There used to be shared cultural standards for dating and courtship, but those are largely

gone now.

This has been a function of the sexual revolution, the invention of the automobile, the sheer number

of people in the country, the result of various subcultures jostling around, and different

movements and fads within the church, which in their turn have led to different emphases

that different families have.

And so there you are, wondering what the expectations are.

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