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This week: Why do so many women have empty online dating profiles? And what do you do when a woman's given you a fake number? Transcript available at patreon.com/DrNerdLove

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Online dating sucks. Doesn't matter if it's Tinder, Bumble, OKCupid or Christian Mingle. Men get next to no matches, women get flooded with awful messages, bots, trolls and zombie profiles run rampant on most apps... it's like trying to find a diamond in a pit of sewage. Most dating apps seem designed to be frustrating to ANYONE who wants to date someone of the opposite sex.

But it doesn't have to bet that bad.

Here's why online dating is so awful... and 5 ways you can make it better.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

• What science has discovered about how men and women use Tinder
• Why men match with women less than .6% of the time
• How to use dating app algorithms to your advantage
• Why you're using the WRONG dating app
• How The Cat Theory of Online Dating can improve your matches
• The biggest sin of online dating

... and so much more.

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Private Coaching With Dr. NerdLove

How To Master Tinder

Tune Up Your Tinder Profile

How To Get Laid (Without Being a F*ckboy)

Texting Mistakes Men Make

How To Write The Perfect Online Dating Message Transcript available at patreon.com/DrNerdLove

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Toxic relationships can be hard to recognize. Are you being stubborn and selfish? Or is something actually wrong? Toxic people don't look like cartoon abusers, gloating about how great it is to manipulate folks.

Learning how to recognize the signs of a toxic relationship — and how to avoid them in the first place — will strengthen your relationships, improve your confidence and make you 100% happier. Learn to recognize these signs and how to drive toxic people out of your life.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

• Why toxic relationships are so hard to recognize
• How toxic people trade on myths about love and relationships
• What red flags you should be watching
• Why "no" is your shield against toxic people
• How to enforce your boundaries — even when people think you're wrong

...and so much more.

RELATED LINKS:

Is Your Relationship Toxic?

What Will You Put Up With? Boundaries, Self-Esteem and Dating

Why It's So Hard To Break Up (Even When You Need To)

Dump Your Toxic Friends

Enforcing Your Boundaries Transcript available at patreon.com/DrNerdLove

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Why do women say they want to find a nice guy, but never seem to want to date them?

The answer is that what women are not saying is actually more important. Whenever a woman says "I wish I could find a nice guy", there's the unspoken modifier: "I wish i could find a nice guy… who actually excites me."

Here's how men can stop being so "nice", and start being amazing.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

• What women REALLY mean when they talk about finding a nice guy
• Why women aren't attracted to "nice" guys
• Why being "nice" by itself isn't enough
• Why nice guys lose respect... and how to get it back
• How to develop the qualities women are REALLY looking for in men

...and so much more.

RELATED LINKS:

Why Being A "Nice Guy" Isn't Good Enough Eliminating Neediness What Bad Boys Know (That Nice Guys Don't) Enforcing Your Boundaries Do Women Prefer Dominant Men? Dominance, Prosocial Orientation and Female Preferences

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Are you ruining your chances of meeting incredible women before you even start? Women HATE it when the guys they meet do these 5 things.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

• How guys turn women off before they even say a word
• Why trying to impress women you're attracted to is the wrong move
• How to demonstrate REAL value and status when you're flirting
• Why you don't want to have TOO much in common
• How men manage to turn a win into a loss with this ONE mistake

...and so much more.

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5 Signs Women Want You To Approach Them

How To Get Women To Approach You

5 Secrets To Make People Like You

How To Be Charming Make The Right First Impression

How To Tell Amazing Stories Transcript available at patreon.com/DrNerdLove

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Confidence isn't about being 100% sure of your inevitable success, it's simply feeling that you know how to handle the situation. Taking away the fear of social awkwardness helps build bullet-proof social confidence.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

• Why your attitude is the key to your social success
• How you accidently cripple your in-person social skills
• Why MeetUps, mixers and networking is better for developing your social skills than cold approaches at bars
• How to block out social anxiety by avoiding the Spotlight Effect
• How to make it easier for other people to approach YOU

... and so much more.

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Stop Being Socially Awkward Pt. 1

Stop Being Socially Awkward Pt. 2

Developing an Abundance Mentality

Face Your Dating Fears

How To Get Women To Approach YOU Transcript available at patreon.com/DrNerdLove

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What does it take to be someone that women want to date? It's not about looks, status or money. It's about understanding the secret behind why we fall in love and with whom.

Show Highlights:

• Why guys focus on surface issues... and miss the most important parts of attraction
• Why women will reject you BEFORE getting to know the real you
• How guys turn off women long before they ever start talking to her
• Why you keep meeting the WRONG women
• What makes a woman decide INSTANTLY whether she will EVER sleep with somebody

...and so much more.

Related Links:

Become Someone Worth Dating

The Science of Nice Guys and Assholes

Why Women Say Yes To Sex

This Is Why Women Won't Date You

Build An Amazing Lifestyle That Attracts Women

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Does personality matter, or are looks the only thing that's important? Why do guys have a hard time understanding what makes a man attractive to women?

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

• How much your physique ACTUALLY matters to women
• Why "attraction triggers" and evolutionary psychology give men all the wrong answers
• How we let self-limiting beliefs sabotage our dating success
• Why attraction is about more than biology
• How we confuse power fantasies for sexual ones

... and so much more.

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The Myth of What Women Want

What Matters More, Looks Or Personality?

The Subtle Things That Make Men Attractive

Do Looks Matter?

The Dr. NerdLove Facebook thread The Dr. NerdLove Twitter thread Transcript available at patreon.com/DrNerdLove

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Men feel immense pressure to look a particular way and they're breaking themselves, physically and psychically to try to get to reach those ideals.

As bodies are marketed to us as products and men are sold self-loathing, we have to ask: what does a REAL man look like?

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

• How male celebrities are getting the body-shaming treatment from the media
• Why the idea of what makes a "real" man is always in flux
• How the "perfect" body has changed over time
• What men get wrong about trying to achieve the perfect body
• Why there's no body positivity movement for men

...and so much more.

RELATED LINKS:

The New (And Impossible) Standards of Male Beauty

The Fear of Being Invisible

The Myth of What Women Want

The Selling of Masculinity

What Men REALLY Need Transcript available at patreon.com/DrNerdLove

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When Chris Morgan had a meltdown at the Bagel Boss in Long Island, he was tapping into real frustrations short men have in dating. Here's how short guys can learn to get the girl.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

• How the body shaming of Jason Momoa and the Bagel Boss meltdown are symptoms of the same problem
• Why your height isn't the deal breaker you think it is
• What Tom Cruise, Robert Downey Jr., Donald Glover and Bruno Mars have in common
• Why women like tall men
• How to seem taller than you really are

...and so much more.

RELATED LINKS:

5 Dating Tips for Short Men

How To Get Women To Approach You

Finding True Confidence

Why You Should Fake It Til You Make It

What is The "It" Factor?

Transcript available at patreon.com/DrNerdLove

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