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It's been fascinating to watch the trend of therapy explode by orders of magnitude in popularity over the last 3 years. For anybody else keeping the finger on
by 8f2ab37a-ed6c 3y ago
It's been fascinating to watch the trend of therapy explode by orders of magnitude in popularity over the last 3 years.
For anybody else keeping the finger on the pulse of trends through what people put on their online dating profiles, the "I hope you are in therapy" stated expectation went from 0 to every-other-profile almost overnight.
It makes me question how much this is driven by the effectiveness of the therapeutic approach vs what is simply trendy and mimetic among bourgeois urban millennials.
- FooBarBizBazz 3y ago> the "I hope you are in therapy" stated expectation went from 0 to every-other-profile almost overnight. Wait, what? Could you expand on this? I don't use these apps, so I wouldn't see this trend myself. But I hear plenty of therapy-speak elsewhere, so I'd believe it. Is the idea that they honestly want a potential romantic partner to be undergoing therapy? Is the theory that this will make the person a better partner? Or is there some horrible idea like it'll reduce the amount of "emotional labor" they have to perform in the relationship? What's the underlying worldview?
- 8f2ab37a-ed6c 3y agoMy most charitable read of that trend is the narrative that everybody is broken and traumatized and if they're not in therapy then they're in denial about their unaddressed issues, and a therapist is the only person who can truly fix you before you bring those issues into a relationship. I'm quite confident that this isn't a thoroughly examined belief for most people espousing it, it's a meme that's supposed to show sophistication as a partner.