Helping Nerds Get The Girl
As Creep Week draws to a close and Con Season is beginning, it’s time to talk about That Guy. You know. The Creeper. The perv. The guy who either misses or ignores every single signal or sign or unspoken form of communication. The guy who makes people uncomfortable by his very presence. The one who [...]
Normally I save letters from my readers for Ask Dr. NerdLove on Wednesdays, but occasionally I’ll get one that merits a full-blown article. Then every once in a while, I’ll get one that merits more than just one article. In this case, it’s a return to the ever-popular subject of how to handle creepers. A reader [...]
The topic of masculinity is one I come back to over and over again because it’s a long-running question for many men. The search for an identity and finding one’s own definition of what it means to be a man is an important part of maturity for young men, one that has been with us through [...]
There was a joke my father would like to tell on occasion “Do you know why divorces are so expensive?” he’d ask? “Because they’re worth it!” He would know, I guess. He was on his fourth wife by the time he passed away, getting divorced almost like clockwork at seven year intervals. Now, while there [...]
When I look back at my bad old days, there’re a number of things that stand out as emblematic of who I was – the fear of letting go of a bad relationship because I didn’t think I could do any better, being unable to relax and enjoy my time with one woman because I [...]
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