Posted on 10/30/2008 8:52:07 PM PDT by restornu
As I told my daughter if the boys can make it through the barbed wire navigate the mine field, swim the crocodile filled moat, scale the fortified convent, make it past the rifle toting nuns on the parapet, avoid the nest of rattle snakes outside your door. Heck sure you can date before your 16.
When my older daughters gave me grief about this, I would pull out the “Especially for Youth” Handout. I would point out the address of the First Presidency and encourage them to write to the Prophet about their inability-to-date-due-to-age woes. I told them that if the Prophet feels inspired to change the 16 y/o rule just for them, come talk to me. They knew it was a lost cause. Everytime, they would whine, I would tell them to contact President Hinckley. LOL!
When I met my future wife, she had just turned 15, I was 17, and her house was a 2 hour drive away from my house. I knew that night she was ‘the one’ but wisely said nothing about it to anybody.
We wrote lots of letters and made sure to be at church dances that the other was going to be at as often as we could, but we did not date. One week after she turned 16 we had one date before her dad was transfered halfway across the country (he was military). We went to a concert together with her older brother and his date.
She came back for my mission farewell, we hung out with friends but didn’t have a formal date. We continued writing to each other and 6 weeks after I got back from my mission I asked her to marry me. Her family had moved again so she was now 6 hours away. Two months after we were engaged we finally were living in the same city and actually dated in a serious way. We’ve been married nearly 20 years now and it’s been great.
There is no need to rush things, let kids be kids as long as they can, because they can never go back to it once they grow up. I’m glad to see OSC holding the line here. Why on earth is he a Democrat?
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