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One of the things that I had to do in therapy
was to make a list of things that I did before I got sick,
before I got really symptomatic, that I was no longer doing.
So, OK, I had played golf, I wasn't playing golf.
I was going to knitting classes, I no longer
was going to knitting classes.
I dated, I was no longer dating.
I'm one of those people that never wants to get married again.
But I like to date, although, by that time,
by the time I got in therapy I hadn't had a date
for almost three years, that's a long time.
And I had to go to the office, I wasn't going to the office
except when I was, my presence was demanded.
And so I had a lot of homework that I had to do.
And the first week, I don't know what I expected.
I think I maybe did one or two things, I may have
gone to the driving range or something.
I was sort of surprised when she followed up,
when the therapist followed up, and she would say to me,
"OK, let's talk about this dating thing.
What are you going to do to make that happen?"
And so I had to brainstorm, you know, what could I do?
Who were my girlfriends, who did they know?
I didn't want to join a dating site, you know, but she said,
"If you go back to the golf course, if you go back to church
and you open yourself up, if you let your minister know..."
And so sure enough, here I am, I'm dating.
So that worked, too, that was not easy, either.