Archive for September 2012

Welcome to Format Free Fridays, the one day a week when I break the format of answering your questions and I dispense that which we rarely welcome in life: Unsolicited advice. I’m obsessed with goals.  My clients have goals, I have goals (both professional, personal and familial) and I encourage my readers to create goals. …

Dear Dr. Darcy: My live-in girlfriend hasn’t contributed to rent in a year. All the bills are in my name and I do make much more money than she does.  The thing is, in the last year her salary has gone way up but instead of offering to pay rent (or offering to pay for…

Dear Dr. Darcy: I’m in a really tough situation and I know you’re going to lay into me for my idiotic decisions.  Here goes.  About 5 months ago I went on a date with a woman I met on online dating.  Anyway, the date went fine and it’s 5 months later and she wants to…

Dear Dr. Darcy: My wife is driving me crazy.  She nags me endlessly. She’s always pointing out what I’m doing wrong.  She’s obsessed with me completing projects around the house.  To be a nice guy, I’ve begun building a deck, but then I went back to work and so it’s been on hold for a…

Today I’d like to talk about the power of making mistakes, or as I phrased it above, fucking up.  One of my biggest complaints regarding the public educational system is the process by which we educate students to fear and avoid making mistakes.  Children enter the educational system with curiosity and a willingness to take…

Dear Dr. Darcy: Why would a guy pursue a woman who is in a relationship with someone else, and continue the affair, cheating for weeks, when he could otherwise pursue someone single and available (who is ten times more attractive). ANSWER From the time they are born, society socializes boys to avoid and postpone relationships…

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