Exiting the Friend Zone

EPIC NERDY LOVE STORY! Dating advice podcaster Harris O'Malley a.k.a. Dr. Nerdlove & wife Catherine Burke O'Malley (LEOG podcast) shares how he married out of the friend zone! TOPICS: Green Lantern Rings, Ancient Online Dating, Attraction in Friendship, Nice Girls & Boys, "Death Camp for Penis," Harris's Pickup Artist Phase, Seduction vs Coercion, the Hot Best Friend, Gay Parallel, Neato Time Dilation Effect, First Kiss, Friend Zone Philosophizing, the "Nice Guys of OKC" tumblr, Nice vs Good, Pedestals, Fish Tacos and the awkward turtle emoticon!   Harris O'Malley is an Austin based blogger and dating coach who runs run the geek love advice blog Paging Dr. NerdLove where he teaches geeks and nerds how to get better at dating without having to give up that special quality that makes them geeks. His articles have been featuredonKotaku, ThinkProgress, Comics Worth Reading, Boing Bong and even the Harvard Business Journal (?!?).  He's also participated in Lifehacker's "Ask An Expert" series, answering people's dating conundrums. He's also a regular contributor to Spill.com as a member of the "League of Extremely Ordinary Gentlemen" podcast. You can follow him on Facebook and Twitter as DrNerdLove. Catherine Burke O'Malley holds an MA in medieval history from Syracuse University and is a regular contributor to Spill.com on the "League of Extremely Ordinary Gentlemen" podcast, and an occasional guest reviewer on the "Remote Viewing" podcast. Her experience with romantic, sexual, and friend-zone matters is strictly practical, personal, and completely ordinary. She married former denizen of her own Friend Zone, Harris O'Malley, in May, 2012. You can find her on Facebook as "Cat from the LEOG," and on Twitter @cathburke