The Romantic Advice Thread

[haxxiy]

Mr Khan said:

haxxiy said:
Mr. Khan, I think you should consider doing some sort of behaviour therapy too. It might help you a lot. You seem to be very anxious over your social skills and what it is going to happen and I identify a lot of that with what I once used to be before seeking a psychologist myself.

It's really just women. I do fine in social situations, like at the luncheon mentioned in a previous post: staffed with important people, including the dean of my grad school, a distinguished alum, and a few student council members, and i was 10 minutes late. Cool as a cucumber and i hit it off splendidly (as far as i can tell, anyway). Got the alumnus talking about his field of study which happens to be a subject of a paper i'm working on, helped carry a good part of the conversation.

Romance, now, drives me a bit batty, which could be for one of many reasons. Hell, my scheming over this was what made me 10 minutes late for the other thing.

Well, it's not really "just" women, since you do seem to care a great deal about it. Not to mention that since you don't seem the age this sort of thing uses to be an issue... you might frustrate yourself more than learn doing things the usual way. But hey, it was only a suggestion.