“Somehow, I find it all so confusing. For 18 years it gets
drummed into my head that I’m not supposed to talk, to look
at, or even think about boys. Then all of a sudden, literally
overnight, I’m supposed to be able not only to go out with
boys but also to feel relaxed on a date.”
-Anonymous girl quoted by Dr. Meir Wikler in “Preparation for Marriage: A Prevention for Divorce,” Jewish Observer, January 1979, p. 11.
Source: Professor William Helmreich’s The World of the Yeshiva,
p. 254 (2000 edition).