How has dating changed?

Oh yes, that ordeal of taking them home for inspection. I dated a couple of lads who were taught by my dad, and each time he came into the room, the lad would jump up to attention. Can you imagine that now??!

My husband and I were talking about this last night. We both said how we missed the courting stage and the anticipation of the next date.
My husband lived around the corner from me and before we started dating, I used to try and time it, so that I would catch the same bus as him, without him realising I was madly in love with him.
Years later, he told me he found it amusing, when he saw me skulking round corners, trying not to be noticed.

Oh yes Annibach, definitely that come in for tea business ie let my Dad give you the once over!

Oh that taking them home, nightmare

Thank heaven you don't have to take them home for ordeal by Sunday tea.

That's lovely mollie.

I met dh in 1969 so the swinging sixties were in full swing. So, although we didn't have ease of contacting that is available now, we had a phone as did dh (who had his own flat) and things were not so formal as previously.

Nor were they as 'informal' as now!

I’ve got a letter written by my husband’grandfather giving permission to a young man to call on his daughter. It’s such a lovely tongue-in-cheek letter but with that slightly protective edge. In it he wrote that he was looking forward to ‘running the rule’ over the boy and warned not to keep his daughter waiting! The boy and girl were my in-laws of course and I think she had asked her father if the boy could call and the letter was formal permission. This was in the early 1930s I think. Times have changed a lot since then.

Telephone box. ,Ohhps clumsy typing today!

Like each other

I think the courtship was quite nice, the will I be asked for a 2nd date etc,
Also not having social media, waiting in the the only telephone in the street to ring & hoping it would be ‘him’
Seems so quaint now, but far better than imho than getting physical too soon & then deciding you don’t really l8e each other.blush