Helping Nerds Get The Girl
One thing that anyone who is into advice columns – either as a fan or as a columnist - will notice is that letters tend to come in patterns. It’s not surprising, really… as freakish and unique as we all feel our problems are, 9 times out of 10, they’re much more common than we’d [...]
Hello Dr. Nerdlove! I am a 17 year old nerd girl who needs some help. Basically, I’ve been desperately madly in love probably three or four times in my life. I have always thought of myself as fat and unattractive, so in relationships, I have found myself to feel as if I put in much [...]
Getting better at dating is hard enough. It gets even harder when it feels like your own mind is fighting back against your attempts to improve yourself. When I was younger, I used to be a chronic insomniac. I’d be physically tired, but I could never actually get to sleep; my body would be exhausted [...]
There are a number of cliches when it comes to dating advice out there, each of them hollow and infuriating. But none of them are quite as mystifying as the perennial classic: “The best way to find a girlfriend is to not want one so badly.” “Don’t try so hard and it’ll happen.” “You’ll only find a [...]
There’s a recurring thread I’ve seen lately online, whether it’s in the comments here or in a few of the other forae where I lurk: an increasing sense of desperation for a relationship. As we’re running headlong into the holiday season, it’s only natural for the singletons amongst us to look around at all of [...]
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