Love-Shy Solutions Start with Yourself
You alone are responsible for your life. Since no realistic, complete love-shy treatment exists, you are responsible for overseeing, initiating and financing your own solutions. No single therapy will do it all.
Do not blame anyone else for your situation, especially your parents. Everybody has issues with their parents. Do not hold them responsible for anything negative in your life. Forgive your parents. They did the best they could, and they were products of their own parents and of an even less enlightened society.
You need to pursue as many helpful paths as possible for a decent chance of success. I group these paths into four general, overlapping categories: knowledge, therapies, real-world experience and personal improvement. Knowledge includes an understanding of both love-shyness and the dating world and may be mostly learned through books. Real-world experience means getting out and being with people. Personal improvement allows you to purvey a respectable appearance. Not only is good hygiene, physical fitness and clean clothes required, but you must have a clean and decent car and apartment.
Then you are ready for the first
steps.
Getting a boyfriend or getting a wife is not the solution; it is the result.
