Are you in charge of your dating life? Do you have a sense of direction, of control? Or do you feel

like you're adrift in the ocean, being guided by the currents and the winds and feeling lost and

helpless? I personally have been both places in my life. Let me ask you a question. What if you could

create a sense of power and certainty

in yourself, a feeling of knowing that you can go out there and meet women anytime you want,

ultimately a sense that you are the one who is deciding your own dating destiny? Join me for

today's show to find out how.

Coming to you from the Center for Social Confidence in Portland, Oregon,

welcome to shrink for the shy guy,

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With your host, Dr. Raziz.

Welcome to today's show.

Today is the time of year that you probably hate if you're single because it's Valentine's Day.

And I never put too much stock into a lot of holidays, especially Valentine's Day. I personally

grew up with my mom saying, ah, that holiday was just created to sell, you know, cards, hallmark cards.

And so I never really put too much stock into it. Although now that I, um, and with my lady, Candice,

my wife, uh, she's taught me how to appreciate that

sort of thing and actually make them special. But for much of my life, I was single on Valentine's

Day. And even though I thought to myself, oh, it's just a holiday made up to sell cards,

it still affected me. You know, you'd see it in, you know, TV or people would

talk about it or just, it would be in the world around you. And it would just be this little

reminder that I didn't have anyone that I was going on a date with. I didn't have anyone

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