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If my wife had divorced me and i ended up a crying heap on the floor like this guy i would probably want to try this. Most people are not in that situation though, it's all relative.

Fair play to him though.

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Don't worry, dude. Give it time.

Coming out of any multi-year relationship is normally a shock to the system. The wonderful whiff of want is the fiercest anti-pheromone.

Also, a good tip, put a rug on the floor.

This reads like greek to me, or like a Markov bot.

I thought maybe it was a quote, but google has only indexed this page for "wonderful whiff of want."

You coined a phrase, anyway!

There's naught to do but converse, in a wee village in the West of Ireland. Gotta put a bit of colour in.

Fear of failure isn't something that only people who've been divorced and are crying heaps experience. If you've ever hesitated to ask a girl (or man) out, you know what this guy's talking about. I think this is a pretty novel approach to confronting that fear.

I wouldn't say novel. This has been a standard method in the PUA community for ages.

I find this to be useful in other situations though, like asking +X% more of rise or in an interview, or asking for a better deal with your internet provider, or just a discount in an store.

Exactly. I'm interviewing with several places now. Even when it doesn't work out, I don't frame that as a "failure" but rather as practice for the next interview. That reframing does wonders for my morale.

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