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This is the first post of a new blog seies written on a range of issues that face men face today: from sexual abuse to issues of masculinity, relationships, dating, fatherhood, and more.

In today’s world men face so many problems specific to our gender, it is pertinent that these problems and topics are addressed by someone who knows about them first hand. I am 61 years old. and I’ve gone through many changes through my life. I’ve been directly helping men for 35 years through my practice as a liscenced clinical social worker & have raised two healthy happy boys whove grown into men.

This is about men helping men. We need to help each other, not let our egos get in the way and fall into the lies of machoism which demand our silent, lonely suffering.

As I said this is just the first post in a series. Also, keep an eye out for my new ebook on recovery from sexual abuse for men. Please send any questions or comments on topics you’d like to be addressed, I’d love for this to be a conversation, so pelase, get invovled.

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Ever had your friends egg you on, “Go talk to her!” and your body freezes up, but your friends continue, “Don’t you like her?” and all you can think is, “Yes, I like her, that’s WHY I don’t want to talk to her.” But of course, you can’t say that to your friends, the guys would all laugh at you, right? Well, hopefully they won’t give you too hard of a time if they’re truly your friends, but friends can tease without realizing when they cross the line to hurting your feelings sometimes, especially if you don’t let them know when they cross that line and just laugh along.

So, what’re you going to do? What if your silence is misinterpreted, as it often is, and one of your friends goes up and talks to her instead? What if he gets the girl and you’re left in the dust, pining away? Don’t let that happen, go after what you want.

In this article you’ll learn how to work up the courage to ask her out for yourself. Now you can’t really expect the best results if you never talk to the girl you have a crush on and just randomly ask her on a date or to be your girlfriend. Even if she says yes, what’ll you do then if you’re not used to talking to her? The new relationship will die out quickly. So what’s the solution? Ease into it. Use these steps to ask her out and to enjoy new relationship.

1st: Talk to her when you’re alone. This is important because she needs to get to know you, just you, not your group of friends. Also….

2nd: Expand the conversation. Try talking about something you know you have in common. If you have a class together try something like, “Hey what’d you get on that math test, it was killer right?” This is a great lead in because if….

3rd: Make it a date. So you’ve hung out now, just the two of you, but it wasn’t a date it was just studying. Okay, so now what? You’re thinking, “What if she JUST wants to be my friend? Maybe I shouldn’t push it.” Well, if you don’t act you’ll never know, and if you’re reading this, you want to know….

Click Here to check out the full article in our new teen section at markdworkin.com with details on the steps and also on ‘conversation,’ ‘confidence,’ ‘what if she says no,’ ‘when she says yes’ and ‘no matter what.’