(5 Jan 2018) DAX SHEPARD HAS A THING FOR GIVING GOOD ADVICE, AT HOME WITH KRISTEN BELL AND NATIONWIDE ON 'ELLEN'
While he's best known as the laid back, less successful younger brother on TV's "Parenthood," Dax Shepard puts his real life fascination for relationships to good use, handing out advice to friends. He's even got the thumbs up from Ellen DeGeneres.
"She asked me, 'What do you like doing?' 'And I said, 'This is probably counterintuitive, but I love talking about relationships,' Dax Shepard told Ellen DeGeneres before coming on her show.
"She goes, 'We should have you on and, you know, you give advice to the audience.' And then we did it once and it went really well. And as she said, "You're weirdly good at this," which is I think a compliment. And then I came back and I did it again. And now it's like a re-occurring segment called 'Ask Dax' and they call me Dr. Dax which is very flattering."
Apparently the 43-year-old actor gets a lot of practice at home, helping friends of his wife, actress Kristen Bell.
"There are several of her friends that come almost exclusively to me for advice, as hard as that is to believe," he admits.
"Relationships really fascinate me because they're the most rewarding thing on planet Earth," he continues. "Everyone says you know what differentiates us from other primates is cutlery or whatever thing they say. But really, a unique thing about us is that we spend a lot of our resources just to enjoy each other and I think that's really cool and unique. But, it also comes with a ton of sacrifice, a ton of compromise, a ton of communication. There's all these things that make those relationships work or not work. And I just find that fascinating."
Shepard believes that providing good relationship advice comes from experience, and hard times.
"I think it's more rooted in the fact that I've been sober for 13 years and I've watched tens of thousands of guys over 10 years, or 13 years, try to get sober and I've just listened to a million people work out a million problems and I've been really interested in what works and doesn't work," he explains. "And there's a certain approach to getting sober, at least the version I use, which requires pretty rigorous honesty and more self-examination than 'You're the problem,' you know?"
Shepard tries to keep change in his own life simple, sticking to the one variable he knows he can control: himself.
"Because ultimately when you have friction with your partner, with your friends, whatever, you suffer. They don't suffer," Shepard said.
"You think, 'My wife, if she leaves the cabinets open she refuses to shut them.' She's fine with that. She's not walking around with elevated cortisol levels. I am. So, who loses? I'm losing and she's never going to shut the cabinets. That's that. That's a wrap on that. So really Dax has to get OK with that in some way, or I will suffer."

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