I wish I could say that I always follow common sense. At one moment, meeting a woman who presents herself as a guru, “Common sense tells me to leave curiosity drives me forward.” That’s the writer coming out. Strauss meets people whose new-age and pseudo-religious or -mystical bullshit is vile. The chase is about women, yes, but it’s also about finding a way to be. Score one for free will or something like it. Strauss, seeking answers, gets what appears to be an fMRI, hoping that his brain makes hedonic and novelty-seeking, only to be told that he chooses relationships or the chase. The treatment does not work, at least at first. In the first section, we learn that there is such a thing as “a CSAT,” that is, “a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist.” The therapists seem at least as mad as the patients, which seems to be a recurring theme in life (you know what they say about psych majors…). Get past the first third and pay special attention to the rest, where Strauss’s sharp, comedic / absurdist observations strike. Unfortunately, The Truth buries the lede: the weakest, most tedious section by far is the beginning, when Strauss goes to therapy for “sex addiction” (which may not exist, at least for reasonable definitions of “exist”).* Don’t give up. It's only in the way I relate to them," Strauss said.The Truth is poorly named but it’s also amazing and you should read it, preferably in the biblical, imitation-leather edition. It has nothing to do with their relationship. They seem different at first, and they end up in the same situation every time because their relationship - because I learned I would always blame the other person until I had a look that it has nothing to do with them. Maybe they're.different heights, different shapes. "Everybody's trying to find the right person. Ultimately, while people are trying to find the "right" person, to Strauss, love is about becoming the right person, he said. If you look at the Ashley Madison scandal, my relationship, your relationships, you look at that and people are so scared to be honest with their partner because they're scared of what they'll think, what they might do to really show themselves and their vulnerability." And secondly, it's kind of what you need in a relationship. And what is the opposite of that? It's the truth.
"One, it's the opposite of 'The Game,'" he said "'The Game' is kind of manipulation.
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