Also, it helps a lot if the girl understands not just what's expected of her, but what she should expect of any potential boyfriend. When she truly understands the amount of respect he ought to have for her opinions, her family, her choices... then anyone who fails that test will not get a second chance from her.
PJ
"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."
--Stardust, Caroline K
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