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Ask Dr. NerdLove: Love Hurts

Doc:

I’m the nice guy, and I managed to score an amazing girlfriend. Just a few quick notes about me: I don’t watch porn, I don’t enjoy it. I’m about as monogamous as you can get, and when I’m in a relationship, thats who I focus on. To put it in perspective, I’m about as much of a chick as you can get from a guy on relationships.

Anyways, I’ve been with this girl for a year and a few months. We’re both super geeky together, and it is fantastic. About 95% of the time.

The question is, how much maintenance is too much maintenance?

Basically when it’s good, it’s amazing. We have everything in common, we share the same interests, we can do everything together, and sex is super fun.

However every other week she goes through a mood swing. It is irregular, and almost anything can trigger it. We could be watching a movie, and if an actress gets naked, there’s a good chance she will sulk about it. This is usually followed by questioning me on whether I find the actress more attractive than her.

Everything we do is like walking through a mine field. If It looks like I’m checking someone out, she is miserable about it. A girl adds me to facebook, or messages me on my wall, I hear about it.

So I ask this after a big fight where she has reached over a year back to accuse me of shit, and to complain I’m hiding stuff from her. From over a year ago. What the hell do I do? Keeping in mind she admits to having been diagnosed with and suffering from clinical depression.

I know the obvious answer, which is to break up. Is there a better answer than just “find someone less complicated”?

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Ask Dr. NerdLove: The Time Of Your Life

 

Hey Doc,

Not exactly a relationship question here. In one of your articles you said that high school is not the most important time in ones life. I had that very view until college, now I think college is the most important time in my life, and that I’m somehow missing out. I take school seriously, so I do study 3-4 hours a day. But since last semester I can’t study consistently because I always think about how I could be out socializing more. Now I do have friends and I do get out here and there (not as much as my friends), but I have this mentality that I need to live it up a lot more because college is the best it’s ever going to get. My grades suffered last semester and I literally can’t afford for my GPA to drop anymore (scholarships). 

Please help Doc. I’ve read most of your articles and you give good sound advice, I’d really appreciate some input on this one. 

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How To Get Girls Into Comics…

Don… oh screw it, I’ve made this joke too many times.

This is one of the most common questions I get that isn’t “Should I tell her I like her?” or “how do I get this girl to like me?” and it deserves its own entry into the Dr. NerdLove canon.  It’s one of the issues where what’s being said isn’t really what’s being asked.

Stick with me for a second here.

Y’see, geeks, as a group, tend towards insecurity and self-loathing. Even with the rise of geek culture, video games cresting as a multi-billion dollar industry, the increasing popular acceptance of graphic novels as a valid medium and nine out of the top ten highest grossing movies in history being geek movies, the collective self-esteem of geeks and nerds remains fairly low.

If it weren’t, I wouldn’t be running this blog, now would I?

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Talking To Women – Opening Lines

So, if you’ve been taking my advice and practicing talking to women, you may be feeling fairly confident and ready to start talking to that cute barrista at your local Starbucks or the hot coed you keep seeing crossing campus every Tuesday. But… what do you say? Do you go for something clever, or something funny or just a direct “hi, how are you, I’m…”

And then your anxiety kicks in, your brain starts to smoke and either the girl has wandered off or you’ve been standing there looking increasingly like a panicked deer before you make a sudden about face and flee.

Or worse, you’re at a bar and you try an honest-to-god pick-up line in the hopes that you’re going to get the girl laughing instead of thinking you’re the cheesiest, most unoriginal creep to hit on her tonight.

So, what’s a nerd to do? How are you supposed to approach these new women you want in your life?

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How To Pick Up Girls on Facebook

Don’t.