Evelyn's Biography (part 6/9)

In 2002, enrolled at Mount Royal College in a Women's Studies class, we were asked to interview a woman in our life and write their biography. Leading up to grandma's 75th birthday, I would like to share what I wrote:

Part 6/9

Evelyn didn’t date anyone before her husband.

I did go out with one fella, but what I liked about him was his family. He’d come and pick me up and we’d spend the day with his family, and I really thought that that was fun. After about the fifth date he asked me if he could kiss me, and I was just so disgusted that he would ask that that was the end of the relationship”.

When I asked Evelyn why she was disgusted she finished her story telling me that, “because I felt that he should just kiss me if he wanted to”. She was 16 at the time. When I asked Evelyn how she thought dating was different now that it was back then she told me the following:

It was more formal. When I was in the Okanagan you could date three or four different guys and it didn’t matter, but when I came to Golden if you went out with more than one guy you were considered fast. So, I didn’t really want to go steady when I first met Bob (her husband).

She told me that there was a dance that Bob had invited her to. She decided against going with him, but told him that she would see him there. Once there, Evelyn saw Bob dancing with another girl and when he finally came over to ask her, that was it – she decided that she would go steady with him after all. This was when she was seventeen.