She feels lonely and isolated and wants a robust social life, but people leave her feeling exhausted and annoyed. How can she be a better social animal?
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Ask Dr. NerdLove: How Do I Live As An Introvert Surrounded by Extroverts?
Hi Doc, This isn’t really a relationship question but if anyone would know how to advise a socially awkward introvert, it’s you! Let’s start with some background on me. I’m a 26 year old woman with social anxiety and depression (currently in therapy and on pills) and suspected Aspergers or ADHD too (awaiting an assessment)….
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Ask Dr. NerdLove: When Advice Columns Collide
Doctor’s note: Hey folks, this week we’re doing things a little different. Sometimes even the advice-givers need a little advice of their own… so who do they reach out to? Well, in this case… me. Straight from the pages of the excellent comic Fresh Romance, advice columnists of The Divorcée Club have sent questions of their own…
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Can Introverts Date Extroverts?
My friend April – (AKA Reverse Cowgirl) came to me the other day with a problem she’d been having with her boyfriend. She’d been starting to wonder whether she and her boyfriend of three+ years were just fundamentally incompatible because of all the ways that they just never seemed to managed to click. “For instance,” she…