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Introduction

Here you are with yet another self-help book about relationships. Maybe you've just unwrapped it and are dying of embarrassment that your geeky parents thought you would need advice while panicking at the thought of all the teasing to which your friends will now subject you. Maybe you are the geeky parent, wondering what's involved in dating these days. Maybe you are somewhere in between. Whichever you are, you've either exhausted the bad advice of your friends (or ignored their good advice, or failed to solicit their advice), you are sick of (the prospect of) dating one loser after another. And you're deathly afraid of another interminable relationship that goes nowhere very slowly (possibly the one you are currently contemplating ending).

You may not much hope for this volume, if you are anxious about meeting new people, unhappy about yourself as a person, or cynical about the current crop of candidates for your relationship adventures. No book can legitimately guarantee that you find "the one", that you live happily ever after, that you spoil your grandchildren together between cruises around the world in which you eat your way through mountains of food while still remaining svelte and young-appearing.

What I hope I can convince you, through this book, is that it is possible to be happy in a wide variety of ways, that you have a lot more choices and options than you realize, and that a lot of things you do for someone else are great for you -- and vice versa.

I'm not making huge promises, so you cannot be horribly disappointed by this book. Even if you hated dating so much that you officially put your marbles back in the bag and went home to play by yourself, even if you've lost track of the horrible first (second, third, fourth) dates you've been on in the last few years, I hope you stick around for at least one chapter. We may be able to take your no-win record and turn it into a 7-2 or better. All I ask is that you read one chapter, and give it a little thought.


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Copyright Rebecca Allen, 2002.

Created February 9, 2002
Updated February 9, 2002