But for a while, she went steady with a wild boy of the streets.
Others tried to go steady for the first half then give it all they had.
They've known each other since they were kids, and went steady in college.
Her father laughed about it one day and asked if I expected a girl of his to go steady with me.
"Was even going steady at the time that I finally made this decision."
After a few dates he might ask her to go steady.
Claude and I had been going steady for nearly a year.
Imagine that you're going steady with someone a year or two younger than you are.
What do you call a single woman who's gone steady for more than four decades?
"I had been going steady with them for 17 years," she says.
