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by Mike Pilinski on Feb.03, 2010, under General Thoughts

The following Q&A is from today's "Tell Me About It" Buy Aricept Without Prescription, syndicated column by Carolyn Hax (dated Feb. Buy Aricept no prescription, 3, 2010). She writes mostly general relationship advice for the newspaper, Aricept street price, Aricept class, but this particular one caught my eye -- so I clipped it out, scanned it and I've added in my 2 cents at the end:

Dear Carolyn, Aricept dosage, Aricept wiki, I am 29 and single. I have a very strong mother who raised me to treat women with respect. I was taught that women are strong, intelligent and independent. And that women don't need any special treatment, ordering Aricept online. Aricept pics, When I go on dates I treat women that way. I respect them, but I don't offer to hold their door open, Aricept for sale, Discount Aricept, or always take my car. I ask if they want to drive. And I always split the check rather than pay for them. I think it's insulting to assume that women are fragile.

As you can imagine, buy Aricept without prescription, Aricept canada, mexico, india, I don't get very many second dates. And most of my female friends say I act like a jerk. Am I a jerk. Should I change my way of thinking, buying Aricept online over the counter, Buy Aricept from mexico, or stay strong to my beliefs ... and remain single, Buy Aricept Without Prescription.

~ B from Maine

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If you are amenable to giving your companion a ride, then you offer a ride.

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Well it looks like good ol' "B from Maine's" flinty cool New England sensibilities aren't serving him very well in his dating life.

I actually get a lot of mail from guys like this who claim they do absolutely nothing wrong when they take women out, rx free Aricept, Where can i order Aricept without prescription, are perfect gentlemen to them, etc, buy Aricept online no prescription. Buy Aricept Without Prescription, etc. Online buy Aricept without a prescription, -- and yet they can't seem to get second dates most of the time. I'm not there watching what they're doing (but boy would I love to!) so it puzzles me as to what these men could be doing so deadly wrong. It's tough to guess when you're only hearing one side of the story.

So it occurred to me while reading this piece in the paper today that some of these guys might have screwed-up internal "rules of personal conduct" which handcuff them to the point where they are genuinely unable to get a sense of how their behaviors are viewed by others. Let's remember that the act of Dating itself is mainly about determining what sort of personality you're dealing with, cheap Aricept, Taking Aricept, to see if that person's initial attractiveness will hold up after a few hours of hanging out with them. Yes, it's all just a big test (and BTW, no prescription Aricept online, Is Aricept safe, it's a test for her too!)

I'm sure it's probably obvious to many of you how and why this guy comes off like 'a jerk'. But here's his One Big Mistake in a nutshell: he's refusing to play the game of courtship -- and consequently the women red flag him as a stiff, uptight, about Aricept, Ordering Aricept online, BORING and possibly difficult personality as a result... and who the hell wants to get involved with someone like that?

Carolyn's opening remark is profound in her observation that he's taken a (possibly) well-meaning respect for women, my Aricept experience, Effects of Aricept, taught to him by his mom, and turned it into a "blunt instrument". (As an aside: I often wonder what twisted motivations serve as a base for the things that our parents teach us. Why was his "very strong mother" so intent on teaching her son to respect women at all costs anyway? Maybe because good old dad (or the previous men in her life) routinely treated her with little or none at all? Just wondering...) Therein lies the roots of shame transfer, purchase Aricept for sale, Aricept interactions, but that's more grist for a future post.

What I'm thinking in this case is that there's an aspect of underlying anger or rage present here that's expressing itself in this very passive-aggressive way. Some of this could actually be anger at the controlling Mom herself, Aricept images, which the women that 'B' dates are only acting as stand-ins for... but that's getting into speculative psychology. I'm just trying to point out that everything in human nature is Cause-and-Effect. None of us grows up in a vacuum. That's why it's important to become self-aware and dig into your underlying motives for acting in the ways that you do. By pulling these things out into the sunlight they will sometimes just burn up in the heat of logic and reason and go away -- and then you've taken a significant first step in changing in your life.

Anyway, I'm sure you can see how adherence to such particular guidelines of strict personal behavior are throwing up an emotionless, distant wall between 'B' and his dates -- when instead he should be trying to create some sort of emotional connection with them. But that would mean having to play the courtship game of deference and charm and to act in a much different way than he describes, Buy Aricept Without Prescription.

Note that I said ACT... as in "being on your best behavior" -- which simply means that you present yourself in a way that's better than ordinary for the purpose of making a good impression on someone. You would no more act your usual nasty old self on a date than you would on a job interview, right? Unless of course you secretly wanted to sabotage the interview and NOT get the job (or the second date for that matter) so you could stay home on unemployment and keep torturing mother? I'm just saying...

'B's refusal to act in ways that would endear him to his date have motivations that could be variously described as stubborn, self-hating, "logical" or any number of other 'good reasons'. But mainly, highly structured behavior also screams out another word to me: FEAR. People who have a need to control and micro-manage every little thing about themselves and their environment have a huge fear of the unknown or of having things slip out of their control. Part of 'B's motivation for acting as he does on these dates could have something to do with 'control-freak anxieties'. Again, without being able to sit down with this guy and pick his brain all we can do is speculate, but it's certainly another possibility.

This sort of thing is more like a bad habit than a personality disorder, but it can screw you up in countless little ways regardless, as you see here. Self-Awareness friends, self-awareness!

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by Mike Pilinski on Dec.06, 2009, under Reader Q&A

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I am an above average looking man and have a higher than average IQ. This made my shitty track record with women even more frustrating to me. I finally decided when I was thirty that I would overcome my fear of rejection and start getting laid. I studied speed seduction....NOT FOR ME! Eventually I just starting approaching and flirting with women and knocked a huge dent in my problem, but still couldn't get past the flirting stage of seduction. It wasn't until after I came across your material that I figured it out.

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