DR. DOT
By Dr. Dot
drdot@drdot.com
www.puredrdot.com
I met this guy and was immediately smitten. He is exactly my type. I am rather jaded and never thought I would fall for a guy like this again. I know he likes me, but on our second date (we have only been dating for a couple weeks) he told me that he and his ex have a 9-year-old daughter. He said he is best friends with the girl’s mother and that his “daughter is the only fucking thing that matters” to him. If this is true, how can I squeeze into his heart? How will he ever care about me? I feel like there is no hope. Should I just ask him if he could ever care for me? How much time should I invest if what he said is true?
—Sweatin’ Silvia
When a guy fathers a daughter, he is truly whipped; no female can ever affect a man like his daughter. They suddenly turn into mush; they are hypnotized and no one can ever come between them. He doesn’t sound ready to start a new family or include you in his, so all you can do is either move on and find someone who hasn’t reproduced yet, or try to keep his other life very separate from what you two have. Unless he suggests otherwise; he may welcome a break from the old routine and will think of you as “freedom and simplicity”—a good thing. Never ask a man if he cares, it should be obvious and if not, you are with the wrong guy.
I am wondering about something with regard to the broke guy you wrote about in your last column. I have been pretty broke all through my 20s, as I have been in college and tend to work only when I have to. I have now made my way to law school and am only a short time from all this education paying off. Do women see potential as sexy (anthropologically ‘secure,’ as your 100 percent right-on analogy stated), or will I be perceived as a beer grade bum until the champagne starts flowing?
—The Central Scutinizer
A smart woman will realize you are driven and ambitious, and she’ll know that you are going to be a breadwinner someday and will make a very secure husband and/or father for her kids. If they scoff at the fact that you currently are lacking funds, they’ll be doing you a favor by helping you weed out the impatient gold diggers. So, yes, intelligent, patient women will see you as ‘great’ even before the Moet starts flowing. I think it’s a bad idea to advertise how much money you make, be it with clothing, jewelry or penis-extension type cars—these only set you up for trouble. If you want a high maintenance woman, then dress and act high maintenance (and vice versa).
Can a long distance love work? I fell for someone online (yeah, I know, I’m a chump) and, well, I just want your opinion and advice. What are the odds of success?
—Surf Junkie John
Long distance relationships can work if you know that you may soon live together. If not, the problem of distance takes over; you’ll be blinded by thinking “Well, if we only lived closer, it would work,” which is bullshit. That one hurdle overshadows the other aspects, like is your partner a bitch in the morning? Are they selfish and hard to live with? Things that normal couples have to face only surface after you have lived together for a while. Long distance relationships are kind of a fantasyland. You should take vacation with each other to really “test drive her” before you think about relocating.
I am an English girl and I moved to New York City a few months ago with my English boyfriend. He got a job, so we decided to relocate our five-year relationship. We got along great in the United Kingdom, but since we’ve moved, he’s been acting distant, uninterested and has even told me that we should maybe take a break and start seeing other people. He is a bartender at an English pub and girls swooning over him every night. It gets my knickers in a twist; The more I flap about it, the more distant he gets. He is always saying how the American accent makes him weak in the knees, etc. I want to keep him, but can’t take this much longer. Help please!
—Lost in NY
It is always trouble when you move your love to a different country. Even if your man has already sewn his wild oats in his native land, suddenly there is new pussy to conquer in this shiny, new place. They have to start all over and sew their fucking oats again. His accent will be a constant babe magnet. There is nothing you can do to stop that now, all you can do is (1) Realize that you, too, are exotic and your English accent will work just the same on American men as it does for your guy and his Yank Skanks, or (2) Move back home and find someone who doesn’t have the Johnny Apple-seed bug up his ass. You can’t force him to yearn for you. Maybe moving out and/or playing hard to get will wake him up, but I doubt it. London calling?