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opportunity at work and the ad council. Hey there folks. One of our listeners, Brian, he wrote into us with a dating dilemma.

See, even though he seems to have all his ish together, he keeps getting friends-owned

time and time again by women he's interested in.

So what did he do? My first thought was, hey man, hang in there.

Robo's first thought, confidence is sexy. You should get some. And welcome to this Ask Amy and

T.J. edition of Amy and T.J. Robs, this was a, I don't know, this was one that my, my heart sank a little bit just in hearing

what he was describing.

That has to suck.

That's right.

He sounded like he's a nice guy who has a good job and is ready for a partner and he just

can't find the right woman who is attracted to him. He said they all want to be his friend.

They just don't want to date him. And it's been devastating to him. All right. And this was the

question that came into us. And we answered on our weekly yahoo.com column that you can find in the

life section. Again, the Ask Amy and T.J. column where we give all kinds of folks, just relationship advice.

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