For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 12, 2022

someone’ll come for you, Elizabeth

Yeah. You mean you want a guy friend who likes you but is not interested in you.

I love the relationship that this sister and brother have.

Like, you know, right? Like, it’s like, well, like now… I like him…….. like.

In most households, the older brother is screaming at his little sister to get out of his room because he’s on TikTok with his friends…

Desktop computers sure have evolved since this strip first ran.

A good friend of mine (now happily married — to the same woman — for about 30 years) once opined, while single and lonely: “There’s three kinds of women in my life; the ones I like who don’t like me, the ones who like me but I don’t like, and the married ones.”

When i was a child i was a social outcast, As a teen i was so used to be rejected socially that i assumed anyone who expressed an interest in me socially was mocking me and rejected them as cruelly as possible in the belief that i was preventing them from hurting me. Which led to my being a social outcast at the age where most people were dating. As an adult i simply avoid social interactions because i still can’t read intent and lack the self esteem to expect anyone to want to get involved with me.

Oh the complications of youth! It would be a trip to go back there and go through all those confusing problems a kid went through. Then wake up and be glad you’re an adult and finished with all that.

So, you want a boyfriend, basically someone who wants to spend all their spare time with you that you can stand to have around most of the time. It helps if he’ll pay for the movies, but not really a job requirement.

At least, Elizabeth, Michael is not calling you, ‘Lizard Breath’ ! ! !

Ah that time in life when a persons belief in cooties begins to wane and their interest in personal relationships begins to bloom.

The teen years are very challenging time to adult formation…………

I’m with Mike on this one. I too would chose, given the choice, a girlfriend who was nice, instead of choosing a girlfriend that was mean and rotten. Unless the mean and rotten girl looked like a beauty pageant winner!

It has been some time since they spoke of Lhetta and Rolne.

Why am I thinking of Abbott&Costello’s “Who’s On First?”

Michael used to be in like…

Rhetta? I didn’t realize she was still around.

Mike sure is using an OLD computer monitor ;-)

like Hi, Dobie, like, like…

No matter how bad it seems; there are plenty of women who can make a relationship work if they hear a man tell them three little words, which many men cannot say honestly, or are too reserved to say. Everyone knows those three words:

I’m a millionaire.

Sorry Mike…. but you DON’T!

Don’t wish your life away. It’ll come soon enough.

Is she still considered a “girlfriend” if she doesn’t sleep with you?