Dear Queenie,
I’ve been going with a boy at school for about a year. He’s in his last year and recently he told me we should break up because he has to concentrate on his classes and get good grades so he can get study financing. I told him how much I love him, but he wouldn’t change his mind.
Then a couple of weeks later he called me and asked me if we could have sex. That isn’t exactly what he said, but I knew what he meant. I said I won’t be ready for that until I am all grown up and finished with school. He said, “Okay, I’ll see you around,” and I haven’t heard from him again except for seeing him once in a while in school.
Queenie, do you think I hurt his feelings?—Lonely teenager
Dear Lonely teenager,
If you did, he deserved it! A boy who is too busy for a romantic relationship but thinks you might have sex with him anyway is too selfish and immature to bother with, for a girl as sensible as you seem to be.
