Hey Doc, I just want to preface I really enjoy reading you and you’ve helped me out a lot when it comes to try and figure myself out as well as become more confident. There’s just one aspect of my life in which I don’t feel confident at all: my sexual experience and sexual self-esteem….
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Episode #153 — The Secret to Stronger, Healthier Relationships
Have you struggled with relationships that were bad for you? Maybe you’ve been in a toxic relationship with somebody who was always manipulating you into ways of getting what they wanted, leaving you feeling like a doormat. Maybe you had friends who treated you badly or would pressure you into going along with jokes at…
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Does He Need To Let Go of Past Relationships?
To the esteemed Dr. NerdLove: Should I get rid of a treasured memento of a past romantic (and currently platonic) relationship before pursuing a new one? I’ve only been in one serious relationship. It started as an online, long-distance relationship shortly after high school. After a couple years, she moved in with me. While we…
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Episode #125 – Are You Trapped In A Toxic Relationship
Toxic relationships can be hard to recognize. Are you being stubborn and selfish? Or is something actually wrong? Toxic people don’t look like cartoon abusers, gloating about how great it is to manipulate folks. Learning how to recognize the signs of a toxic relationship — and how to avoid them in the first place —…
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Understanding the Hot/Creepy Matrix (Or: The Hot Celebrity Exception)
Everyone has their guilty pleasures: things that they do that they would probably refuse to admit to in public. I mean, I don’t, but that’s mostly because I had my sense of guilt surgically removed in 2006, but, y’know. Everyone else does. One of the closest things I have to a guilty pleasure is the relationships.txt twitter…
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