#Question: Why Is She Not Returning My Calls Or Texts?
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#Question: Why Is She Not Returning My Calls Or Texts?

Just because you have nothing else going on, does not mean that she doesn’t. Women have very active social lives. They are in high demand for events, parties, dates and friends. Look at the typical girl’s Facebook page. She has her own career, possibly school and her own social life that existed before she ever gave you her number. You think that just because you had an innocent flirty exchange and managed to get her number that she’s been thinking about you since? Guys let’s be realistic here. Girls give out their numbers a lot. Sometimes, they do it just to get you to leave them alone.

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#NerdsUnite: Getting Women to Chase You
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#NerdsUnite: Getting Women to Chase You

When you do this successfully you will wonder when you will have time to hang out with the girls you are interested in. You’ll come off as aloof and hard to get. Let’s work on becoming the man we truly want to be and women will be knocking down our door to get to us.

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#SMSsummit: Thank you & #messageme!
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#SMSsummit: Thank you & #messageme!

Thank you so so so much to those that attended my presentation on blog strategy, narrative advertising, and alternative monetization streams at the Social Media Strategies Summit today in Vegas. It sounds cheesy but it really is an honor to get to meet so many of you, and I'd LOVE to connect!!

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#BrutalHonesty: A step in trust and a story about dealing with your sexuality
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#BrutalHonesty: A step in trust and a story about dealing with your sexuality

The reason that I am writing about my sexuality is because of this story. I'm not gay or transgender but I know what it's like to feel out of place and alone in your sexuality. It has brought me a lot of happiness to see how far we have come in our acceptance of human sexuality but we still have much further to go. This is my small step to help in this movement...

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#DatingDetox: ask how you can MessageMe
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#DatingDetox: ask how you can MessageMe

It's not something that I'm proud to admit that I do, but I feel like a big part of me lives life one step removed; everything, to me, is a game of chess. I look at people and things and contemplate their next moves, and expected trajectories. I view it as strategic, but I'm sure it's also a defense mechanism in wanting to control after spending so much of my youth getting hurt by people I trusted.

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Fun with #OKCupid: Oh, sweet sweet irony
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Fun with #OKCupid: Oh, sweet sweet irony

So come 1pm, she says she's going to have to stay later, until about 3pm. Doesn't text.. Come 4pm, she says they had a bit of a drama at work, and she has to stay with a patient until a doctor shows up and it could be hours.

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