{"id":2261,"date":"2008-02-14T21:13:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T05:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2008-02-15T07:49:23","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T15:49:23","slug":"one-itis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2261","title":{"rendered":"One-Itis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Strauss writes: &quot;It&#8217;s a disease AFCs (Average Frustrated Chumps) get: They become obsessed with a girl they&#8217;re neither dating nor sleeping with, and then start acting so needy and nervous around her that htey end up driving her away. The cure for one-itis, PUAs (Pick-Up Artists) like to say, is to go out and have sex with a dozen other girls &#8212; and then see if this flower is still so special.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>That sounds horrible but it is true. Whenever I fall in love with a girl, it never ends well. Just witness <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1509\">all my mooning over Danielle Berrin!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=svm-qIDxEWs\">I drove around the Museum of Tolerance today and checked out the angry signs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisprager.townhall.com\/talkradio\/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=3\">Dennis Prager<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px;\"><span class=\"Verdana10Black\">                                         Thursday February 14, 2008                                     <\/span><\/div>\n<div><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" class=\"Verdana12BoldBlue\" href=\"http:\/\/dennisprager.townhall.com\/TalkRadio\/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=3&amp;ContentGuid=e9dd11a3-b444-4ca8-bedf-5dca9ed963c6\">                                         H1: Hillary in Free Fall                                     <\/a><span class=\"red10bold\">With                                         Dennis Prager                                     <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 2px;\" class=\"Verdana10Black\">Prager H1: Dennis talks to Dick Morris, columnist for the New York Post and Fox News political analyst about the current state of the presidential primaries. He sees Hillary in a free fall from which she will not recover&hellip; Got one in Syria &ndash; one of the world&rsquo;s worst terrorists, Imad Mughniyeh. Hezbollah is blaming Israel. Dennis hopes it was the CIA&hellip; Dennis shares some thoughts about love based on his latest column on the same subject.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 8px;\">\n<p><a href=\"javascript:launchAudioWindow(&quot;\/MediaPlayer\/AudioPlayer.aspx?ContentGuid=e9dd11a3-b444-4ca8-bedf-5dca9ed963c6&quot;)\">                                         <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"74\" vspace=\"2\" height=\"19\" border=\"0\" align=\"absmiddle\" src=\"http:\/\/media.townhall.com\/Townhall\/btn_listen_white.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/dennisprager.townhall.com\/talkradio\/SetUpPodcast.aspx?pc=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"74\" vspace=\"2\" height=\"19\" border=\"0\" align=\"absmiddle\" src=\"http:\/\/media.townhall.com\/Townhall\/btn_podcast_white.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <span class=\"Verdana10Grey\">                                                     Length:                                                     00:32:41                                                 <\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px;\"><span class=\"Verdana10Black\">                                         Thursday February 14, 2008                                     <\/span><\/div>\n<div><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" class=\"Verdana12BoldBlue\" href=\"http:\/\/dennisprager.townhall.com\/TalkRadio\/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=3&amp;ContentGuid=9e29d89c-3ca8-4bc0-b471-52557b9382c2\">                                         H2: Mars versus Venus                                     <\/a><span class=\"red10bold\">With                                         Dennis Prager                                     <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 2px;\" class=\"Verdana10Black\">Prager H2: Dennis talks to John Gray, best-selling author and an internationally recognized expert in the fields of communication and relationships. His latest book is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0061242969\/ref=nosim\/townhallcom\">Why Mars and Venus Collide<\/a>: Improving Relationships by Understanding How Men and Women Cope Differently with Stress&hellip; In the first segment, Dennis talks about the power of love, hate, anger and fear.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 8px;\">\n<p><a href=\"javascript:launchAudioWindow(&quot;\/MediaPlayer\/AudioPlayer.aspx?ContentGuid=9e29d89c-3ca8-4bc0-b471-52557b9382c2&quot;)\">                                         <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"74\" vspace=\"2\" height=\"19\" border=\"0\" align=\"absmiddle\" src=\"http:\/\/media.townhall.com\/Townhall\/btn_listen_white.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/dennisprager.townhall.com\/talkradio\/SetUpPodcast.aspx?pc=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"74\" vspace=\"2\" height=\"19\" border=\"0\" align=\"absmiddle\" src=\"http:\/\/media.townhall.com\/Townhall\/btn_podcast_white.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <span class=\"Verdana10Grey\">                                                     Length:                                                     00:33:52                                                 <\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px;\"><span class=\"Verdana10Black\">                                         Thursday February 14, 2008                                     <\/span><\/div>\n<div><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" class=\"Verdana12BoldBlue\" href=\"http:\/\/dennisprager.townhall.com\/TalkRadio\/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=3&amp;ContentGuid=6b601a91-fd11-4f8b-8a9c-edcb8196c64c\">                                         H3: Who Appreciates Whom More                                     <\/a><span class=\"red10bold\">With                                         Dennis Prager                                     <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 2px;\" class=\"Verdana10Black\">Prager H3: John Gray mentioned in passing during his interview with Dennis that men appreciate their women more than women appreciate their men. Dennis discusses this important idea with his listeners and gets some very emotional feedback.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 8px;\">\n<p><a href=\"javascript:launchAudioWindow(&quot;\/MediaPlayer\/AudioPlayer.aspx?ContentGuid=6b601a91-fd11-4f8b-8a9c-edcb8196c64c&quot;)\">                                         <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"74\" vspace=\"2\" height=\"19\" border=\"0\" align=\"absmiddle\" src=\"http:\/\/media.townhall.com\/Townhall\/btn_listen_white.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/dennisprager.townhall.com\/talkradio\/SetUpPodcast.aspx?pc=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"74\" vspace=\"2\" height=\"19\" border=\"0\" align=\"absmiddle\" src=\"http:\/\/media.townhall.com\/Townhall\/btn_podcast_white.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <span class=\"Verdana10Grey\">                                                     Length:                                                     00:33:11<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to be a boy and want to be known as girl in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wltx.com\/news\/story.aspx?storyid=58245\">second grade<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Strauss writes: &quot;It&#8217;s a disease AFCs (Average Frustrated Chumps) get: They become obsessed with a girl they&#8217;re neither dating nor sleeping with, and then start acting so needy and nervous around her that htey end up driving her away. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2261\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating","category-dennis-prager"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Neil Strauss writes: &quot;It&#039;s a disease AFCs (Average Frustrated Chumps) get: They become obsessed with a girl they&#039;re neither dating nor sleeping with, and then start acting so needy and nervous around her that htey end up driving her away. 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