TOPIC: What's up Fellas.

Hey I stumbled onto one of Chris' vids on da youtubes which led me to GLL. Cool as shit man. Glad I found this site!

was up man and welcome

I'm pretty grateful to find a source for information that's free and that makes sense. These guys seem to have a vested interest in making a positive impact in the lives of dudes who are hurting. Very cool.

As for me, I'm 31, from the Northeast US (shitty Buffalo...bad sports teams, obesity, ugly girls etc.) I just got off of active duty with the Army. Cool shit the weekend that I dty'd home was when Sandy hit and I got to race that bitch up the coast from Savannah to PA... that's when I split off and went inland. I introduce you to quirk #1 ADHD.

BTW It makes me uncomfortable when people tell me "thanks for your service." It always seems forced and it's unnecessary IMO.

Ok, 31, adhd, I'm a month and two days into recovery for alcohol. Huge problem in my life. I missed out on 14 years of personal growth. Social Anxiety has always factored in, however I wouldn't gage it as "crippling" per se, as the Army experience tapered it off some. It used to be a lot worse. What remained of it was drowned with booze and while some guys can get drunk and pull decent muff on a Saturday night, that guy isn't me. So I did hit rock bottom recently and I'm on my way back up fast. Finding this site is what's going to keep me from getting the bends on the way up, know what I mean?

Since I retired from boozing (helps to look at it that way) it's been like seeing things through a different set of eyes. I'm still me, but most of my perspectives are different. Before I'd sit there and be depressed about not getting any trim and obsess over it and even get turned down by ugly girls. Who wants to sleep with, or even be around a drunk? I'm finding more and more that I respect hot women (if not all women) less, and myself a lot more. I understand that that may not be the right approach, so I anticipate that this forum is going to help me figure out how to balance it all out.

Long story short, I'm my own worst critic, I blank out in conversations with attractive girls, I'm working on my body and my diet is super clean, currently unemployed (be damned if I'll be wrapping people's burritos as an Iraq Vet) and I need a few pointers on social skills. I want to work on being smooth. I think with a little work I could pull that off. Some dudes are high energy, some are comedians, I want to be smooth.
My name's Rob and I'm glad to be joining you guys in this march to success you've got going. Later.