What is up,

what is up daddy gang?

It is your founding father Alex Cooper.

With call her daddy.

Dr. Jenny Tate's welcome to call her daddy.

Thank you, Alex. I'm so excited to talk to you in the Daddy Gang.

I am so happy to have you. So Daddy Gang, Dr. Tate is a clinical psychologist and author of the book How to be single and happy.

I love when psychologists write on topics that they are experts on and also have personal experience with. So do you mind sharing, why did you write this book?

Alex, there's several reasons that I wrote this book. You know, I was started to see this pattern in my practice

where so many people were coming to me from all ages, both men and women that were saying this is my first time in therapy.

I feel fine in my life except dating feels like the one thing that is not going as planned and I thought I had a decent sense of self worth but it is totally taken a turn and I'm really struggling with how constant rejection is making me feel and this was kind of coming up at the same time that dating apps were increasingly popular and so just the vast number of dates people

were going on had totally multiplied and the manners had totally descended and I also really

got it so I also really got it.

So I was really fascinated.

You know, I'm always interested in helping my clients,

but I also really empathize personally

because my parents got divorced when I was young

and my mom was divorced twice by the time I was like 12 and I really wanted a relationship in my mindset was that relationships were really hard to come by.

Good relationships were hard to come by anyone could have a bad or a terrible one,

but a really rewarding one that brought you up was a challenge to find. How did your desire to be in a relationship lead you to being engaged to the wrong person.

So I was going on tons and tons of deeds like so many people are and it really felt like a terrible

version of the game, Matchet. It was like like I was like turning things over and nothing was

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