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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I've seen this go very well and I've seen this go very badly. When it goes very well, it looks nothing like therapy because it is about mutuality and deepening the relationship. When it goes very badly it looks nothing like therapy because you cannot be sufficiently objective.
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In the bad scenarios they are almost always behaving in ways that would make for a spectacularly shitty therapy client, and your options for dealing with that are very limited in a way that they would not be for an actual therapist.
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do you have any advice for how to do this without ending up in a position where your relationship is very one-sided outside of therapy-style feelings chats? for me the dynamic spills over, because one person ends up disproportionately attuned to the needs of the other.
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I think my main advice is to talk about your feelings in both directions. This can (and probably should) talk about feelings of one-sidedness. If they are not in a position to hear your feelings, finding a way to work on that (possibly includes them seeing an actual therapist)
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