The Atlantic
                                
                                    
                                        
                                    
                                
                            
                            
                    
                                
                                
                                January 28, 2025 at 09:05 PM
                               
                            
                        
                            “With few exceptions, my male friends seem incapable of having a balanced, one-on-one social conversation with me,” a reader writes to James Parker. How to explain this phenomenon? Read his advice to her in this week’s “Dear James”: https://theatln.tc/jm78wGYK
                        
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                                    
                                        
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