His relationship was great at first. But most of her exes are still around and now he can't stop imagining her in bed with them. What can he do?| Paging Dr. NerdLove
She left an abusive and intimacy-free relationship only to end up in another relationship where the sex has died. What happened here?| Paging Dr. NerdLove
A former shy kid has come out of his shell and gotten very good at meeting women and getting phone numbers. So why do these connections never go anywhere?| Paging Dr. NerdLove
One thing I've learned over the years - both through my own experiences and from coaching others - is that men are all quivering bundles of anxieties and insecurities. We're not allowed to actually, y'know, voice most of these concerns - goes against Man Code, after all - but we sure as hell feel them. And it's that inability to actually voice our fears or anxieties that lets other people prey on them with snake-oil and horse shit. After all, why bother actually talking to somebody when y...| Paging Dr. NerdLove
A large number of the emails I get for Ask Dr. NerdLove, both here and at Kotaku start off the same way: 'I've never had a girlfriend'. Many my readers have a lot of anxiety over finding their first relationship. In fact, many feel that they're essentially doomed because they've never seriously ((for suitably variable definitions of 'serious')) dated anyone before. They see the large gap in their relationship resume as a glaring, unmissable flaw, as though asking somebody out were applyin...| Paging Dr. NerdLove