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going steady vs dating

going steady vs dating

Great post! As younger teens it meant that you were a couple and probably made out; when we were older and could actually go out on dates, it meant you exclusively dated that person and also probably made out, but in cars. Despite being so much older, my high-school experience was probably similar to yours — serial monogamy. It was much more like serial monogamy. And I can see how such casual dating would be less likely to contribute to confusion between raging hormones and burgeoning love. As a california kid in the early 80s, I'd ask, ". I would say it was used in some contexts like "they are going together" when the conversation was about dating, but not with the generality suggested by the OP's examples.

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