Stray thought: I wonder if people who object to being a free therapist for their partner also object to being a free sex worker.
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Actually no, but I'm also in favour of both of those things. My actual point is more like "If the thing that is core to a healthy relationship is transactional in this way, the problem isn't that you should have been paid for it".
Partnered emotional support doesn't look much like therapy. If it does that's a very bad sign. But also most of what people seem to complain about sure doesn't sound like therapy to me, and the comparison does both their relationships and therapists a disservice.
