You heard right. This week on Car Talk, we heard from Iliana, who feels a special attraction for guys who can parallel park with style. She's found Mr. Right -- only now, he's come down with a bad case of parking anxiety. Can this relationship be saved? Tell us what you think! You can hear her story…

Now that he knows about her special attraction, subconsciously he’s checking to see if she likes him for himself or only for his parking ability. If she cools off because he can’t park, then the relationship wasn’t meant to be. If she still loves him even through a case of performance anxiety, the…

Dear Iliana, you have found, “the one.” I know this because I am a great parallel parker and my now wife mentioned that early in our dating. Of course that made me nervous resulting in parallel parking interuptus and the infamous 56 point turn in front of our favorite pub packed with observing cust…

This is to help Mr. Right parallel park with style, perfectly, every time! The day I turned 16 years of age, I went to the West Virginia State Police Barracks near my home to take the Driving Test, to obtain my license. I passed everything with flying colors, including the entire driving test with…

Have him buy one of those Smart cars. He can back in perpendicular to the other parked cars and be within the law. That ought to make his honey HOT for Amor!!! He has a much better view of traffic allowing him to merge, or in other words, pull out in time! Big Dan

The woman with the parking fixation simply needs to employ a simple psychological technique called reframing. Next time her boyfriend is parking, she should simply close her eyes and just notice the motion of the car, as it moves back and forth, in and out in order to get into the tight space. She s…

I know where Iliana is coming from…“my turn on” is (was) when a guy palmed the steering wheel with the heel of his right hand to turn. Iliana, please give your guy a break, the parallel parking was just a way to begin the relationship and since you’ve discovered many redeeming qualities about him r…

My daddy taught me to parallel park, too, Illiana, right in, a couple inches from the curb. He & mom were together 54 years. My husband could park right fine, but left me for a hot chick when he was in his 50’s. Now I park my little Echo all alone just fine, and he parks his little Prius with his c…

What I think is, Don’t let a womans desire for you or rejection of you affect your clear thinking.

Several words of advice for Ilian’s beaux and other PPPA (Parallel Parking Performance Anxiety) sufferers: Valet Parking She drives Drop her off and park in the next block.

Iliana's Parking Fixation

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Dutch_in_Pittsburgh November 8, 2008, 7:33pm 8

He should get one of those cars with the rear bumper camera that shows where you are going when you back up (or she should get one for him, it would be kinda romantic). And if Iliana feels like this is too “artificial,” tell her to think of it as Viagra!

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