The boyfriend back home

abasket
Wed, 16 Sep 2015 12:54:52 +0000

“But we lied to our parents, too. And our parents lied to their parents. And their parents lied to their parents…”

This is a really legit statement for probably most of us. Not necessarily big lies.

H and I dated all through college - he went to a college an hour away from mine - mine was 3 hours from home. He was a few years older and had a car. He came to my school or I went to his school on weekends OFTEN. I don’t know that I really shared this with my parents. And with no cell phones, email , etc. besides that once a week collect call or pay phone call, we didn’t have contact. So it was sort of “no big deal” for them not to know. Or maybe they did know - but we didn’t talk about it. I honestly probably would have preferred to have them know and to not worry about it - we truly did keep things pretty innocent during that time - but they didn’t ask, I didn’t tell - kind of a respected silence.

H and I both worked hard at school during the week and had fun with other friends on weekend when we weren’t at each other’s schools. It worked out well for 4 years at school and now here we are 30+ years later!