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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Okay, if you're going to imagine specific horrible people rather that an exhausting and pathologically self-involved dependency on the partner as a helpless source of an "emotional support" that never leads to any change or insight then you do you but that's a real thing.
I feel like if you think I am imagining this then you are unlikely to have actually read the thread.https://twitter.com/GeniesLoki/status/1311265239149752321 …
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There is a way people talk about relationships (especially on the internet) that describes all mutual emotional processing as "free therapy", and there is a long track record of weaponising "go to therapy" on the internet.
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There are many people who should go to therapy and would probably get a lot out of it. There are many people who are in toxic relationship patterns. Some of those people might benefit from going to therapy. The reason for that is not that their partner is being a free therapist.
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I didn't read the thread because I had responding to your first Tweet and did not know that there was a thread. I had not meant to suggest that such people do not exist, but I hadn't known that I was responding to the preamble to talking about them.
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Well, maybe err on the side of treating mutuals as competent and actually attempting to read the context before going all passive aggressive at them in future?
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