If she does, then she was starting college with some trauma and insecurity. Is that why she felt like she had to try so hard to get Ryan to want to date her?
How should she have broached the subject of her medical condition with Ryan? Should she have said something like this:
"Dear Ryan,
I want to date you for all four years of college, during which we will be the cute couple envy of all our friends. Then I want us to live together in a nice apartment and get married a few years after college, having a gorgeous wedding attended by our families, friends from home, college and work.
Because I have Hashimoto's disease, I might have some physical problems, like goiters, that will get worse over time. You don't mind, do you? Who doesn't want to date and marry a woman who has a goiter?
That's the Web address for the Images section of the Google search results for a search of the term "goiter." I know that you'll want to start reading about it now, so that you'll know how to be a supportive boyfriend and husband.
I wasn't sure how to begin to talk to you about my progressive illness. I thought about sending you my will, sort've as a joke to start the conversation, but I didn't want to scare you off, so I started this message by telling you that I want to date you exclusively for all of our college years and then spend the rest of our lives together, because I know that's the sort of thing that is guaranteed to soothe 18-year-old guys and get them to date the girls who like them.
Love,
Jackie"
Being young and thinking that what you feel for someone is love that will last all your lives is not a crime. Making mistakes while you're young is not a crime.
Rape is a crime.
Copyright L. Kochman, February 12, 2016 @ 3:43 p.m.
