Zen Bender. Stephanie Krikorian

As a person who hoped there were better ways to demonstrate that you had the potential to be a solid life partner.

      As someone with shiny hair.

      Itching for an opening, Sarah and I could not wait to bolt.

      Once class broke for coffee, I left that seminar. Sadly, it never left me.

      As insane as that advice was, as the years marched on and the dating got harder, often all I could think of was…hmm…does he think I’m fertile enough to date? It had snuck into that inner voice in my head and swirled around with all the other nuggets of self-doubt.

      And I had let it.

      Prospecting in Heels

      The seminar an epic fail, I moved on to a book called Calling in the One, which basically guaranteed you’d find love in seven weeks if you followed the steps strictly. In fact, I had spoken to several people who knew someone who had fallen in love after reading it. Or, in one case, I knew a person who completed the book, and then quickly and unexpectedly found her life partner and married him!

      It worked! There was indisputable scientific evidence in front of my face.