Given what Emily and I do for a living, as you imagine we’ve probably heard just about everything.
And truly, there’s no limit to the potential topics of discussion when it comes to matters of men relating to women and vice-versa.
Maybe that’s why it’s so blasted curious to me that about a quarter to a third of the questions we get follow a certain pattern.
It’s a very definable one, too. Here are just a few examples. See if you can pick up on what I’m talking about:
“Hey Scot, lately I’ve been completely unmotivated and even scared to ask a few women out. Yet they seem to flirt with me all the time. Should I man up and flirt back, or am I doomed to never having a girlfriend? Thanks, man.”
“Yo man, whenever I meet girls I try to ‘escalate’ as quickly as possible so I can ‘get the lay’. But the same thing always happens—they always tell me I’m a little too ‘intense’ for them and that they don’t want to go out with me. Should I stop pushing for sex so soon?”
And then there’s this sort of thing…which is way, way too common:
“Hello Scot and Emily. I live with my boyfriend, but he leaves me alone for most of the night and when he comes home drunk beats the heck out of me. He doesn’t have a job and spends most of what little I make on cocaine and gambling. Oh, and he slaps my two children around also and calls them names. Should I marry him?”