Couples Therapy Proves Straight Women Are Stronger Than The Marines

This newsletter takes time, research, and a probably unhealthy number of tabs open at once. If you’re enjoying it, subscribing is the best way to support the work and keep it going!Modern therapy culture has made many women exceptionally skilled at understanding the men who hurt them. That’s what kept running through my mind watching the latest season of Couples Therapy.I used to love this show, but lately it’s started to feel almost unethical to watch. What once felt like an intimate look at human behavior now feels like watching people use the language of therapy to rationalize abuse. Couples Therapy has become a fascinating show about people who should not be in couples therapy at all. There’s a well-established clinical consensus that couples therapy is contraindicated in abusive relationships, meaning the format itself can make things worse. Couples therapy assumes both people enter the room with a relatively equal level of power, safety, and freedom to speak honestly. But when…