In April of this year, my daughter’s school will have a ring dance. This is their equivalent to the junior prom. This dance is more than 2 months away, and my daughter is home sick with a bad sinus infection. What is on her mind this evening? Why she doesn’t have a date for the dance.
We went through this last year. She ended up having to turn a couple of boys down, because she had more than enough dates. But this year, she is convinced she will not have a date. One boy has already asked her. She turned him down by acting as if she didn’t know he was asking her. He has not worked up the courage to ask again. The guy she would have gone with last year if he had asked her before the guy she went to the dance with is afraid Brighid will have to turn him down again this year, so he is asking someone else. The guy she went with last year has a girlfriend this year that will go with him to the dance. She has had a couple of boys earlier this year express great interest in dating her, only to get side tracked with school and sports and not be able to date anyone. Such is life at a challenging school.
But I anticipate tears, fears, and headache after headache (mine) as she wrestles with whether or not she’ll be asked.
So much to be said for arranged marriages. I wonder if you could do arranged prom dates?