Love
Questions from
viewers about love,
and Doctor Leon’s common sense advice.
Tammy – I am a 14-year old girl with an ex of 18 who
claims to have a wide array of mental disability. He says that he is
manic depressive with anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder,
ADHD, and psychotic manifestations. Is this possible or is he full of
it? If his state is completely fictional, why might he say such
things? He’s told me that he’s been in and out of psychiatric
hospitals and used to be on all sorts of medication, but he hasn’t
been on any meds since I’ve known him until recently, and even so it’s
only Prozac. I’m obviously no expert on psychology, just a naive girl
in puppy love, but the whole thing sounds fishy and I don’t like being
lied to if that is the case. Anything you can tell me would be greatly
appreciated.
Doctor Leon – The best way to clear up this mystery is to ask
his parents. He’s probably lying through his ass, although I suppose
anything is possible. While you’re at it, ask his parents how they
would feel if their son went to jail for contributing to the
delinquency of a minor. If you are this attracted to someone this sick
(one way or another), sex is just around the corner and you are going
to get burned big time.
My advice is to stay far away from this mental deviant or liar
(whatever) and find yourself another puppy. For the record, female
intuition is a miraculous thing and you should do what your intuition
is telling you to do. Run from this guy as fast as you can and don't
slip on the fish scales.
Amy – Shouldn’t he already love me?
Doctor Leon – From a romantic perspective he
SHOULD already love you, but from a Pavlovian perspective he merely
desires to be fed. You possess the assets he has associated with
feeding since early childhood. Stimulation of these assets escalates
into higher level sexual activity that ultimately fulfills nature’s
instinctive primary objective; to mate and propagate the human gene
pool.
Men are incapable of experiencing the emotion of true love until they
complete their “instinctive compulsion to propagate” (ICP) phase.
During the ICP phase, men use intentionally false cognitive tricks
like verbal expressions of love they believe will influence women to
engage in sexual intercourse with them. Psychological research tends
to confirm the success of this approach.
After a man has passed through his ICP phase, he becomes capable of
learning that permanent relationships with female companions can
provide an infinite number of tangible and intangible emotional and
physical benefits above and beyond the physical gratification of
mating. He then begins a search for one woman to fulfill his need for
these newly discovered benefits. When he finds a woman he truly
appreciates, respects, desires (and essentially worships) for HER
qualities instead of his, he learns to label that feeling “true
love.”
Some men never progress beyond the ICP phase. I presume the “he”
you speak of falls into this category.
