Estimated reading time: 17 minutes Hi Dr. NerdLove. I’ve been an enormous fan of yours for a while. From my perspective, your works (online dating books in particular) make it easier to navigate the material barriers to say the technologically not savvy. I bring up barriers for a specific reason, as you shall read. I met a woman at my best friend’s wedding. It’s his step-sister and we felt a connection pretty quickly. After giving me her number, three weeks passed and we went on an intr...| Paging Dr. NerdLove
Welcome to 2014 folks. It's a new year and ripe for potential and improvement. If you're like most folks, you've made some New Year's resolutions. Perhaps getting better at dating is one of them... Usually around this time, I make my annual tirade about how New Year's resolutions are wastes of time but I want to do things differently. You see, one of the reasons why so many resolutions fail is that you're addressing surface issues rather than the core causes. For example, f you're trying...| Paging Dr. NerdLove
Between women refusing to date a virgin and hearing that relationships don't last, he's losing hope. Why should he bother dating in the first place?| Paging Dr. NerdLove
Occasionally, I'll get an email from a reader who isn't asking for advice so much as they are asking for permission. And nine times out of ten, what they're asking for is permission to break up with their significant other... because they can't manage to convince themselves that they need to. One of the most perverse aspects of being human is how hard we fight against our own best interests. Our brains are prone to a host of psychological effects and fallacies that convince us that we s...| Paging Dr. NerdLove
Ever have a problem where you keep dating the 'wrong' person over and over again? Do you keep wondering why every woman seems to be awesome... but they never seem to work out? Have you gotten caught up in a cycle where you date someone and it's amazing in the early stages, but it explodes spectacularly by the time you get past the three month mark? Have you been wondering why you just can't ever seem to find someone who's right for you? It's actually an incredibly common problem. Guys are ve...| Paging Dr. NerdLove