It's good you included your location.
In the US, opticians have to provide your script whether you ask for it or not.
I didn't find something as official for Canada with a 5-second web search, but this Ontario College FAQ indicates Canada has something similar.
AskJeeves it!
I've been trying to say "search online" or "websearch" for the past year or two.
Now that you've got me thinking about this, I wonder if there are any journalist style guides that cover this. That's often an interesting reference point for what people are saying versus an attempt at more objective way.
I've read similar. A full, continuous month would probably be more effective than my week-long dry spells, but I have alcohol-related hobbies (brewing, distilling, other fermentations) that I don't want to shelve for that long. So more frequent week-long spells are for me.
Happy journey with your spouse, I hope it's a positive for you!
It's not about tolerance, it's about monitoring how much I'm consuming so I don't overdo it.
I take a break from caffeine for a week every two months. I do the same with alcohol every month. It helps me stay objective about the amount I'm consuming. It helped me cut way back from pandemic-levels of coffee especially. Hoo, boy, I was one jittery, confined ball of anxiety and despair.
Pro tip: don't schedule both during the same week.
Friends also help with loneliness.
Don't skip friends. Romantic relationships are friendships+ with the difficulty level dialed up by x10. If someone can't build and keep friends, a romantic relationship is likely to be bad and will fix nothing.
If you literally just want a hug and don't currently have someone in your life to do that with, paying is an option. Friends can also give hugs.
Eh, are they asking about other ways to get into dating though?
This sounds like "cold approaching". Like a guy walks up to a woman he doesn't know or barely knows and asks her out. I can tell you for one woman's perspective, this sort of approach has a 0% chance of working on me. And before anyone says, "but what if he's good looking and rich hurr durr hypergamy". No, still no. If anything, a super good looking guy in slick clothes cold approaching me is gonna make me wonder if I'm about to be abducted into his fucked up forced prostitution ring.
Imagining what it might be like for a guy, yeah, "cold approaching" sounds terrifying and likely futile.
Wanna know how I got every single date with a guy ever? Online dating where I was actively open to being approached (no longer a cold approach on the part of the man) or doing some approaching myself. Or I met him through friends and got to know him a bit before we mutually decided the vibes were nice (no "approach" at all). This one requires having friends though, so lots of the worst of the chronically online misogynists are already opting out.
My phone started freaking out after a recent update and I was just about to go on a trip. So I hurriedly factory reset to get it functional and hoped all automatic backups were good. The critical ones were for sure, but stuff like camera roll I don't care about as much.
I haven't even tried to load and check the camera roll backup yet, meaning the oldest photo on my phone is a whopping two weeks old and is of my parking space number at the airport. It's a grey Camry, just about the most common color and the most common car. Man, I would never find it if I forgot where I parked it.
If we expand "devices" to my laptop and storage drives, the oldest photo is early 1900s. A shot of my great grandmother as a little girl standing outside the sod house she grew up in.
Networking. Which was the intent of LinkedIn, I suppose, but I just revert to good old phone calls.
This is where a good ol' "hate the game, not the player" applies.
I have no judgement of the people who do it to make money. Any issue I have is with the economy and culture that drives some to do it to survive when they wouldn't otherwise choose to.
Your point about money shouldn't be the purpose... but some people, especially women, are stuck where sex work is their best paying option. It's not their fault.
In a perfect world where no one is forced to do any particular labor to survive, when consent is given 100% of the time, and everyone's safe, I have zero issue with sex work from any angle. In this imperfect world, my issue is with the system and not the individuals working in the industry.
PD is annoying, for sure. But the FTC website I linked above covers that too:
"Oh, you don't share prescriptions with the patient? I thought that was an FTC regulation. Here, let me pull that up on my phone right quick to clarify. Pretty sure they even have an email contact I can reach out to if needed."
Knowledge is half the battle. Have the info to back yourself, then hold your ground. Scummy optometrists rely on people not knowing their consumer rights.