As always, stay tuned here on !comicstrips@lemmy.world for a slow trickle out of Jucika comics, but if you want to find more, here’s a good post with a large collection that /u/JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social posted last year: https://piefed.social/post/1258520
It’s interesting to see old comics like this or Archie in which people date (or are implied to date) more than one person at a time, so that one person they date can see them on a date with someone else and feel jealous, but the situation isn’t considered cheating. According to my grandmother, who is about Jucika’s age (based on when the comics were first published) and grew up in the Soviet Union, that really was normal when she was young, to the extent that she would deliberately go on dates with other guys to make my future grandfather jealous if she felt like he wasn’t paying enough attention to her, but it was associated with a very strong expectation of waiting until marriage before having sex.
I’m a millennial, so not that old, but even I consider there to be a difference between “dating” (casually with no particular commitment to a single person) and “going steady” or “being boyfriend and girlfriend.”
Not that I ever actually did casually date multiple girls at the same time, mind you, but that’s just because I have no game, not because it was some kind of taboo.
I’m 40 and I’ve only ever been “dating” someone who was my b/gurlfriend. I’ve been on a date or two with prospective b/gurlfriends but I wouldn’t say I was “dating” them, if that makes sense? I’ve never seen more than one person at the same time as a prospective partner. Respect to people who can do that, but that was not for me!
It’s so foreign to me. I know it was like this in the US too. It was socially normal to “date” multiple people at once, before committing to marry one, but like you said, “dating” didn’t imply sex or living together, just talking and going out to eat/the movies or something.
Well, if you’ve played Stardew Valley, probably not too foreign an idea at least.
But what would I know? I’m polyamorous and in a poly relationship 😅
probably not too foreign an idea at least.
Oops, this is how I meant to use “foreign” too. I’m just now seeing how it could be confusing in context.
Back in those days divorce still was a stigma. So if you were living in a small community - it wasn’t available.
You were able to get away with it only in big cities. (Not that many in Hungary)
