Blog Review: Ask Dan and Jennifer
The Right Way and the Wrong Way to Kiss a Woman
I thought, “All right! A relationship advice site with information that I can use!”
I was hooked. Not only were these guys good-looking, they had great relationship and dating advice for that real people could use. I loved their straightforward yet playful style.
Bipolar Booty Call
However, what really got me serious about Ask Dan and Jennifer was when one of their visitors wrote to them asking for advice about dating someone who has Bipolar Disorder. This caught me off-guard. Most dating advice sites avoid mental illness like the plague, so I was pretty surprised that Dan and Jennifer even wrote an article about the subject. However, I was even more surprised when they asked me to participate in the discussion that followed the article. What followed was a great discussion about how a condition like bipolar can have an effect on dating and relationships.
After that article I got interested in finding out more about these guys. Here’s what I found:
Our Mission
Our mission is to help people create more conscious relationships based on love and acceptance rather than fear, jealousy, anger, and ownership. It’s time to move on from outdated ideas about relationships and sex…
“We will answer your questions openly, honestly, and without bias or judgement.”
Now I was really interested. These guys were obviously taking a different direction from the “never wear red on the first date” style of dating advice. So, last week, when they posted an open invitation to their visitors to review Ask Dan and Jennifer, I jumped at the chance.
Unconditional Love and Acceptance
In their about section, Dan and Jennifer ask themselves this question:
“What’s your secret to a happy and loving relationship?”
Their answer is revealing. They reply:
“Unconditional love and acceptance, and communication, communication, communication…
* Love your partner for who they are and where they are now.
* Stop trying to control or change them.
* Be happy for them and allow them to do whatever makes them happy and brings them joy - that’s unconditional love.
* Talk about everything, even if it’s a difficult topic.”
I believe that it is this philosophy that makes Ask Dan and Jennifer such a valuable site for anyone suffering with a mental illness who needs advice on relationships and dating. For example, in the article How to Survive Being Single This Valentines Day they avoid the usual cliché of “stay at home, make some popcorn, and then watch a movie and hope that next year you’ll find somebody.”
Instead they share a bunch of great tips on fun things that you can do if you are by yourself on Valentines Day. However, that’s not all they do. They also share some awesome advice on how to turn your lonely Valentines into an opportunity to look at yourself and your love life and think about some positive new directions for yourself, rather than beating yourself up for being alone.
Every article on Ask Dan and Jennifer is very good, but my the one article that I keep coming back to is also my favorite: Is Shyness Keeping You From the Girl of Your Dreams? This article is brilliant. It is a short, simple article that provides great tips on how to overcome shyness and fear of rejection in order to ask a woman out on a date. Don’t let its length or simplicity fool you, everything is here, from how to overcome fear of rejection, to how to figure out if a woman is attracted to you.
I absolutely loved this article for its honesty, straightforwardness and sensitivity. It is easily the best “how to ask a girl out” article that I have read, and any guy who is trying to get up the courage to ask a woman on a date would do well to read it. Women should also read it, because it really shows how much men struggle with asking a woman on a date. Its a masterpiece.
I am very glad that I found Ask Dan and Jennifer, and I am even more glad that I have been given the opportunity to review their site. Ask Dan and Jennifer is a great resource for anyone who has any questions about dating or relationships. Also, their friendly, non-judgemental approach, and deep respect and love for their visitors, makes them a wonderful source of information for mental illness sufferers who need relationship advice.
Dan and Jennifer, congrats on a great blog, and I look forward to being a long-time reader.
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