“With few exceptions, my male friends seem incapable of having a balanced, one-on-one social conversation with me,” a reader wrote to James Parker in 2025. How to explain this phenomenon? Read his advice to her in "Dear James":

“With few exceptions, my male friends seem incapable of having a balanced, one-on-one social conversation with me,” a reader wrote to James Parker in 2025. How to explain this phenomenon? Read his advice to her in "Dear James":

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