Women ask me for scripts more than anything else. What do I say when he goes quiet? What do I text after the first date? How do I bring up where things are going without scaring him off? I understand why. If you do not know what to say, having something ready feels...
A woman named Teresa came to see me about six weeks after her boyfriend of two years ended it. Not in a fight. Quietly, on a Sunday afternoon, like he had been deciding for a while. Looking back, she could see the signs he was pulling away before the breakup. The...
A woman named Carol came to see me after what she described as a lifetime of getting it wrong with men. She had read every book. She had taken courses. She understood, intellectually, more about male psychology than most people I had ever met. She could explain why...
Ladies, has this ever happened to you or someone you know? You meet a great guy. You start dating and your relationship goes well over the first few weeks or months. You’re convinced he’s definitely into you — maybe even in love with you. Suddenly,...
A woman named Lynn came to see me after fourteen years of marriage. Her husband was still there every night. He came home, made himself a plate, sat in his usual chair. He was not cruel. He was not absent. He was something harder to explain: somewhere else. “I...
A woman named Sandra came to see me about eighteen months ago. She was forty-three, had recently ended a long marriage, and had been dating again for about a year. She was not struggling to meet men. She was struggling to keep them. “They like me at...
