DEAR LUCY LIPPS:
I am now 32 years old. I make a great living in the medical industry. I have a very fulfilling job relating to physician education. Women constantly tell me I am "good looking, sweet and know how to have fun."
I date quite a bit and I still can not trust or find a person that challenges me. I love a woman with brains and strength. What happened? I am being everything to everyone and still coming up empty?
Simba from Minneapolis
DEAR SIMBA
Take heart and buckup you are not the only one in this quicksand sinkhole. Join the club, they say "those that can't teach" …so that is how (with the assistance of 14 Dr. Pepper's in the past two hours) do this! Half of America is boiling with this "single fever." So, don't fret.
You say you "date quite a bit." You use the words "cannot trust" and someone that "challenges" you. Sounds as if you are scouting girls in a women's prison! These are vague hints that you may have been hurt in the past. If you so, you need to resolve these issues before you set forth in a new relationship. Rely on your friends the most, for they know your assets better than you think.
Bottom line is you can have the heart of the Tin Man, the looks of Brad Pitt and a tongue of Simba the Lion, time and attitude is the only thing that will resolve this.
Life is sometimes bumpy and difficult, Sugarbritches. Just absorb a ration of passion from every avenue and prepare yourself for a sudden avalanche of adoration. All set? March your honeybuns down to a halfway house for children awaiting adoption homes. There are twenty little arms needing to lock themselves around your neck.
Helpless children grate on your nerves? Take yourself to the nearest nursing home and play gin with someone's grateful Granny or read to the blind. You are an educated man with lots of spirit to give. You will attract an entire new breed of woman! WHY? Because you have a new respect for yourself! If you want to meet an interesting girl and your friends are not pulling through, go to some poetry readings, join a health club, volunteer at a sports event for disabled children or work on a political campaign.
Now go! SCRAM - start living! Don't forget I have your email address, Mister! If you do not start Livin' La Vida Loca, I will come to Minnesota myself… and trust me, it will not be pretty!