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Getting Naked—Again

If you're a woman of a certain age who finds herself alone this Valentine's Day and you'd rather not be, and you've taken a big hit to the heart before, then pay attention. You're probably uncertain how to connect with men in a romantic way while a little discouraged or maybe even flat-out cynical about the possibility of happily-ever-after. Read More

WTF?

> Rest assured that post-romance romance is no less awkward for men;
> they're pretty clueless, too. But society reaches out to them and
> they get taken care of more—someone, for example, is always handing
> them the phone number of the perfect eligible woman.

Where do you daffy dames get your steady supply of absolutely nutty ideas?

I cannot conceive of where anyone would get the idea that "society reaches out to them [men] and they get taken care of more". Nobody's "always handing them the phone number of the perfect eligible woman". Men are wallflowers. Invisible.

As the rest of your piece explains, it's women who are "pretty clueless". I've been around the single's scene long enough to know just about everything almost all of you think you know about men and relationships is wrong, because you live in a feminacentric echo chamber of articles (such as this one) and books and TV shows which all consist of women knowingly telling each other how it supposedly is, though it mostly consists of people telling women what they want to hear.

So the best thing a woman could do is tune out all the self-help and advice BS, because no one wants to be around someone who thinks they're a know-it-all, but who appears to others to be totally mistaken.

getting naked again

Ouch!
You sound angry.
I agree with you absolutely about the notion that society looks after singled men who are handed the phone numbers of eleigble women - that is nonsense.
And as for defending loony, batty and daffy ideas - well why try.
None the less, the article does seek to counsel others as angry as you.
So I suggest you get naked - look in the mirror and try to imagine the woman who wants you more than she wants to beleive a whole load of claptrap.
good luck

Thank You!

Thank you so much for this wonderful article! It is exactly what I needed to read. Very, very helpful.

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Hara Estroff Marano is Editor at Large of Psychology Today and writes the magazine's advice column, Unconventional Wisdom. She is also the author of A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting.

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