Dear Dr. Love;
I am 33, male, professional, very busy and successful in my career. However, I have no luck in relationship with women that I like the most and have significant feelings for.
To give you some background; I was born and raised in a very loving, caring and stable family and knowing myself, I don't think I have significant psychological deficits due to my childhood upbringing, except, I was brought up in a middle eastern and conservative family.
I started dating from age 28! Mostly because I was too busy with my education, and I date about 2-3 times per month, so far with ladies that they already have relationship or broke up recently.\
Just to give you one example about my problem: I met this beautiful Irish-American lady at the hospital where I work, actually she came on to me!, and after three weeks of playing hide and seek, I finally had the guts to asked her out! We went out, a couple of times, to a nice dinner at nice restaurant,
Eventhough I had, and still do, significant feelings for her, I was not able to express her those feelings. I became nervous, panicked. Make the story short, she stopped talking to me and asked me not to call her anymore.
I hate to say this but the same senario has happened to me multiple times in the past and this situation has made me depressed, (believe me I have no S/H Ideation!)
If you can please let me know what I should do, is it a missunderstanding from mybehalf or cultural glitch or what?




