Good morning Grace.
Yep, Altoona is an old railroad town with a population of about 70,000. It’s a quiet place, nestled in the Appalachian mountains, about 110 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, and about 210 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
To answer your question, I am writing to offer philosophies, practices, behaviors, diets, beliefs, insights, routines, motivational tid bits, and so on, that help enable people to take a maximally active role in finding their “perfect match” mate. Many of us become rather anxious when faced with the prospect of introducing ourselves to someone we -REALLY- find attractive, and so never end up letting them know of our interest, choosing instead to “settle” for someone less attractive to us than we would like, primarily because they were just easier to approach. Ironically, the more we desire a person, the more self-conscious and uncomfortable we may feel when thinking about approaching them, and thus, the greater the anxiety becomes as we attempt to make their acquaintance.
Fear and desire, at first glance, appear as opposite concepts. Yet they really go hand-in-hand. The greater the attraction for someone, the more that that fearful part of us moves us away from them.
My mission therefore, is to help eliminate this anxiety barrier that keeps people from dating their dream mate by dispelling mate-seeking myths, dissecting the anxiety phenomenon, identifying its typical yet numerous causes, and exposing any irrational beliefs that the one experiencing the anxiety may have, which are crippling him / her. There, that’s it in a nutshell.
Changing the subject: I’d really be interested in reading the profile you wrote, that match.com rejected – you mention this in the profile they DID post.
Later,
Tom Hesley