Elsa Aguirre Offered Love Advice in 1952: How She Responded to a Woman Facing Humiliation

Decades before relationship advice became a staple of online content, Mexican film icon Elsa Aguirre offered counsel on matters of the heart through a newspaper column.

In April 1952, Aguirre penned advice in a section of EL UNIVERSAL titled "Ritmos del corazón" (Rhythms of the Heart). This space allowed readers to write to their favorite artists seeking guidance on their romantic troubles.

One reader, who signed as Rosalía M., confided in Aguirre about her boyfriend. She explained that after a year of dating, the man who was initially gentle, chivalrous, and kind had become insolent and humiliating. Despite this change, Rosalía admitted she still loved him and sought Aguirre's advice.

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My friend Rosalía, to such a difficult and delicate problem, I have no other recourse than to advise you to seek oblivion. You can achieve this through great effort and immense dignity, because insisting on the contrary, that is, resuming these relationships, would be a mistake on your part.

Aguirre's response was direct and firm. "My friend Rosalía, to such a difficult and delicate problem, I have no other recourse than to advise you to seek oblivion," she wrote. "You can achieve this through great effort and immense dignity, because insisting on the contrary, that is, resuming these relationships, would be a mistake on your part."

She further cautioned that continuing such a relationship would disastrously repeat the same story. Aguirre pointed out that Rosalía had lost faith in him, while he had lost all respect for her, and that no love could be firmly built on such foundations. "I repeat: forget him!" she concluded.

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I repeat: forget him!