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Boy meets girl, gets phone number. Girl waits by phone. Boy finally calls and a date is made.
That is horse and buggy days, folks. There are now so many ways to negotiate that first set of moves that it will boggle your mind.
There’s email and text-messaging, instant messaging and blackberries. And each one lessens the degree of risk that walking up and saying “hi” or making that first phone call elicits.
Which in many ways is good, since lower risk would tend to encourage more overtures.
On the other hand, the easier and more casual the “Let’s get together” messages become, the less importance the getting together actually seems. Remember when people got dressed up to go to church or fly in an airplane? Now folks go practically in their pyjamas. And wear pyjamas on dates, as well. If you ever tune in to soap operas, you’ll notice that the characters now are either naked or dressed in tuxedos and ball gowns. That’s how far they have to go to denote special.
From Your Romance Coach, Kathryn Lord
