Aye, there’s the rub!! One of my superpowers is that I am a connector — I not only connect easily with others, but am compelled to connect up triads — and I am good at making friends with lovely women. At the same time I suffer from a lack of social receptor and interpreter tools that would allow me to move beyond friendship and on to sex .

Friendship puts them on pedestals. That is good in the sense that the only way for them to come down from that pedestal is to take the initiative to make some very definite first moves. I have a very high standard for what constitutes a “come on” (see https://medium.com/@johnnovak_43277/its-always-ladies-choice-in-my-universe-32530e7725e0), and that serves to protect the ladies, but the lack of any initiative on my part is likely to be interpreted by them as a lack of interest. That is certainly not the case as I am falling in love every day! I may be hard to get, but I am easy.