and to date as many people as she wanted. I told her to marry anyone that treated her better than I did because I was confident that no guy was gonna be better to her. Besides, if I loved her and wanted what’s best for her, wouldn’t I want her to marry a guy that’s better than me if she could find it? Anyway, she had three boyfriends while I was gone and was proposed to by her boyfriend a month before I got home. She remembered what I said and told the guy she needed to wait until I got home. We got married 7 months later and never looked back. That was 23 years and 5 kids ago.

Point is, if we’re confident that we’re the best place for him then we should sit back, relax and keep being good to him. It’ll remind him of why he’s choosing us. Act all insecure, paranoid, and high-maintenance and it’ll be instructive to him. I’d run. If the kid can find some place better for him and we care about him, then he should go. But we all know there’s no better place than BYU. Let’s act like we know it. Be still my friend.