Hello Doc! Long time lurker, first time writer( insert all gushing here). I really like how you give honest, occasionally painful but also necessary advice. I have a kinda awkward question for you and I hope you can help, because I am at a loss at the moment. I have been very lucky in that…
emotional health
How Can I Be Confident When I Have Relationship Anxiety?
Hey Doc, Last March, I sent you a letter for the Ask Dr. NerdLove section (I’m LW 1 here) and now I’ve got a few more questions. At the time, I had never been in a relationship despite almost being 30 years old. Since then, I have been in two officially defined relationships, the first…
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How Can I Help My Fiancé Manage His Anxiety?
Hello Doc Sorry if this is a little long, just want to give enough background information… (hopefully?) I met my fiancé using an online dating app at the start of the pandemic. I hadn’t dated in around a decade and was scared to date again but saw the pandemic as a good excuse to not…
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How To Stay Positive (Even When Everything Is Awful)
One of the keys to any sort of self-improvement, emotional resilience, even just making progress in your own development is also one of the least appreciated: knowing how to perservere, even when the world seems to be falling apart. In fairness, trying to stay positive and how to keep your head up, even when it…
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This is How You Solve Your Dating Problems
It doesn’t matter who you are, what you do, or what you look like; at some point your love life is going to go pear-shaped – quite possibly messily and all over the place. Sometimes it may only be for a few days or weeks. Other times, you end up in a dry spell that…
Help, My Ex Is Dating Someone Else and I Can’t Handle It
Dear Doc, I recently got out of a three year relationship that was my longest so far. It wasn’t perfect and the breakup want pretty. There was a lot of toxicity between me and my ex and we were in two different places in life. Since my ex moved out of my house. I’ve been…
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